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#StorageMinute: Elastic vSAN

Glenn Sizemore posted March 13th, 2019

Welcome to the #StorageMinute series where we deliver key topics via bite-size content. In this edition, we will take a look at Elastic vSAN inside the VMware Cloud on AWS Service. Elastic vSAN is an innovative new solution in the VMware Cloud on AWS Service that combines Amazons Elastic Block Store offering and Read more...

Evolve Without Risk: Enhance Visibility, Management and Control with vSAN

vSAN Team posted March 12th, 2019

So, you’ve got your hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) up and running—great! But that’s just step one. The logical next step is to evolve simply and efficiently into a full-stack hyperconverged infrastructure so that you can enhance your visibility into management and control of your infrastructure. Enter vSAN, which can help alleviate your storage infrastructure dependencies and Read more...

Russian Petrochemical Leader Increased the IT Availability at its Subsidiary Companies

Kalyan Tummala posted March 6th, 2019

SIBUR is the largest integrated petrochemical company in Russia, which is engaged in the processing of associated petroleum gas, thus annually preventing the emission of more than 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As part of a large-scale digitalization of the enterprises comprising the holding, in 2017, SIBUR decided to change the Read more...

Native SQL Server Cluster support on vSAN

Glenn Sizemore posted March 4th, 2019

In the latest of a seemingly continuous stream of enhancements, we are pleased to share Microsoft SQL Server Cluster support on vSAN. This support has been added in the latest release of the VMware Cloud on AWS Service (1.6) and adds SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation (SCSI3-PR) support to vSAN. Initially released to the VMware Cloud on Read more...

Overview of the SPBM Policies You Can Use to Manage Your vSAN

Jason Massae posted February 28th, 2019

In this next blog in the SPBM series, we are going to focus on vSAN. With vSAN, the SPBM policies have quite a bit of functionality. You may wonder how all these rules or capabilities are used. They can control data placement and protection, how data is placed to tolerate a host failure, IO and Read more...

PowerCLI 11.2 Released, with more goodness for vSAN!

Jase McCarty posted February 28th, 2019

PowerCLI 11.2 has now been released. The additions for vSAN include updates to some existing cmdlets. Storage Updates The cmdlets updated include: Get-VsanSpaceUsage, Get/Set-VsanClusterConfiguration, and Test-VsanNetworkPerformance. vSAN 6.7 Update 1 added the ability to estimate the amount of free capacity for a vSAN cluster using a selected Storage Policy in the UI: The Get-VsanSpaceUsage cmdlet can Read more...

#StorageMinute: vSAN Health Checks – Guidance and Remediation Made Easy

Pete Koehler posted February 25th, 2019

Welcome to the #StorageMinute series where we deliver key topics via bite-size content. In this edition, we look at how vSAN provides cloud-connected health checks to vSAN clusters. Environments are constantly changing, and are subject to simple misconfigurations, or device incompatibilities and errors. Having an intelligent, cloud-connected method for monitoring the health and Read more...

Performance Metrics when using IOPS Limits with vSAN – What you Need to Know

Pete Koehler posted February 22nd, 2019

The IOPS limits storage policy rule found in vSAN is a simple and flexible way to limit the amount of resources that a VMDK can use at any given point in time. While it is easy to enable, there are specific considerations in how performance metrics will be rendered when IOPS limit rules are being Read more...

The Perfect Pair: A Recap of the vSAN & vSphere Chat

vSAN Team posted February 8th, 2019

Following our most recent vSAN Deep Dive chat with Duncan Epping and Cormac Hogan, we joined forces with vSphere for an epic 101 tweet chat. Guests included Mike Foley, Pete Flecha, Ron Scott-Adams, Bob Plankers and many more who joined the conversation! The hour flew by as joint teams discussed the vSAN and vSphere integration with customers Read more...

Join us at Tech Field Day 18

John Nicholson posted February 1st, 2019

On February 7th VMware subject matter experts joined the Tech Field Day team at Tech Field Day 18 in Austin, TX! The brain child of GestaltIT, Tech Field Day is an independent IT influencer event that allows vendors to discuss products and/or features with industry leading bloggers, speakers, and podcasters. Taken from the About Tech Field Day Read more...

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