We’re excited that VMware has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software for the fourth time. This year, we have been once again been recognized highest and furthest for our completeness of vision in the Leaders Quadrant. We believe this recognition reflects the strength of our full-stack, software-defined infrastructure Read more...
This blog series focuses on how you can lower the cost of storage in your data center by getting the most out of VMware vSAN™ features and functionality. Thin Provisioning Thin provisioning used to be a somewhat controversial feature to use when first used with VMFS. vSAN’s architectural design avoids a lot of these concerns. Read more...
Achieving optimal levels of performance, capacity, and availability in an environment requires proper design and planning. The datacenter in its current state comprises a wide variety of workloads from traditional applications to containerized solutions. This is coupled with varying requirements of data services related to availability, security, compliance, and space efficiency. The legacy methods of 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...
vSAN 7 Update 1 is loaded with significant features and enhancements, focusing on building a developer ready infrastructure, improving scalability, simplifying operations and extending file service use cases. A detailed insight is outined in this blog What’s new in vSAN 7 Update 1. vSAN requires additional capacity to accommodate transient operations such as policy Read more...
Placing a host in maintence mode is a common operational task for vSphere administrators. Host reboots, firmware and software upgrades could be some of the reasons why you must choose a data evacuation mode to be applied while the host is not operational. Hosts in a vSAN cluster placed into maintenance mode do not contribute Read more...
vSAN 7 Update 1 introduces a shared witness option for 2-node cluster configurations. The ability to use the same witness host/virtual appliance for multiple 2-node clusters is cost-efficient in terms of physical resources, manageability, design, and operations. It also saves you valuable time from not having to deploy and setup multiple witness hosts for each Read more...
In one of the largest, most significant releases in memory, vSAN 7 U1 includes a massive number of enhancements to help organizations address the demands of their environment quickly and efficiently. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Pete Keohler to discuss the details of this massive release. Links Mentioned Blogs What’s New Read more...
VMware vSAN HCI Mesh The Scale out architecture of VMware vSAN enables powerful non-disruptive scale-up or scale-out capabilities. You can non-disruptively expand capacity and performance by adding hosts to a cluster (scale-out) or just grow capacity by adding disks to a host (scale-up). As application workloads organically grow, this enables performance to be right Read more...
Announcing VMware vSAN 7 Update 1 We’re excited to announce the latest release of the market’s leading hyperconverged infrastructure software, vSAN 7 Update 1! With more features that any release over the past three years, this version focuses on boosting data center efficiency. vSAN 7 Update 1 enables customers to deliver developer-ready infrastructure, scale Read more...
