One of the most frequent requests for vVols was the support of Site Recover Manager (SRM). With the release of SRM 8.3, that request was answered! The thing is, there is a lot more to this integration than may seem obvious. We know that SRM allows for the automation of Disaster Recovery (DR) and it Read more...
With the release of vSphere 7 Update 1, a number of improvements have come to backing up virtual machines. VMware’s powerful APIs allow for fast, efficient backup and restore operations of virtual machines. Network QoS for Backup Traffic A new dedicated resource pool is been introduced for backup network traffic. System administrators can set this Read more...
Although the vSphere 7.0 U1 update didn’t have any major core storage features added, there are some enhancements and additional interoperability in the release. VMware continues to enhance many of the prominent storage protocols to ensure performance and efficiency. We work closely with customers and partners to determine the most relevant and beneficial features or Read more...
In vSphere 7 U1, for core storage, the big announcement along with VCF 4.1 is the support for vVols as principal storage! You may ask, “Why is this such a big deal”? With Cloud Foundation, your management domain requires vSAN, which can easily be managed using policy-based management or SPBM. SPBM allows simplified operational management Read more...
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we present another Back to Basics episode discussing arguably one the most frequently used storage protocols for VMware vSphere, iSCSI. Pete and John welcome VMware’s Jason Massae, and Pure Storage’s Jacob Hopkinson and Cody Hosterman to walk us through some iSCSI common mistakes, best practices and design considerations. Read more...
In cases where customers are using numerous pRDMs in their environment, host boot times or storage rescans can take a long time. The reason for the longer scan times is each LUN attached to a host is scanned at boot or during a storage rescan. Typically, RDMs are provisioned to VMs for Microsoft WSFC and Read more...
Virtual Volumes or vVols enables your existing storage array capabilities to be managed via SPBM policies and applied at a VM or VM disk level, all while existing in a single vVols datastore that correlates to a storage container on the array. The Guest OS file system is the native FS on the vVol itself. Read more...
RDMs aren’t the most popular of storage option but are widely used for many applications that require SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations. SCSI-3 PRs allow SCSI commands to be directly passed to a LUN to satisfy the requirements of SCSI-3 PR used by Microsoft WSFC. WSFC is one of the more common examples of using RDMs. When Read more...
The release of vSphere 7 introduces several enhancements to core storage including external connectivity to NVMe devices with NVMeoF, shared VMDKs for Microsoft WSFC, and in VMFS, optimized first writes for thin-provisioned disks. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Jason Massae to discuss what’s new in vSphere 7 Core Storage. Links Mentioned Read more...
VMware works closely with our storage partners when developing new features, enhancements and products. With vSphere 7 now GA, I want to highlight our storage partners’ content for this release. As more partners release content, I will update this blog. For more information on storage features in vSphere 7 head over to Storagehub.vmware.com. VMware Storage Read more...
