Discover how VMware IT efficiently performs Day Two operations and management for maximizing the availability, capacity and performance of VMware vSAN clusters. You will get a variety of tips, including how to seamlessly conduct upgrades with zero downtime, handle disk failures, perform health checks, troubleshoot vSAN objects, customize VMware vCenter alarms to monitor clusters, realize the best maintenance practices, and more. This session also includes demos of the Ruby VMware vSphere console and vSAN Observer, challenges, lessons learned and your questions.

If you are new to vVols, this session is for you. It will go from 100 to 200 level and show you how vVols can modernize your external storage in your virtual environment. See how vVols work and can reduce operation overhead, as well as allow greater scale, and get you out of managing LUNs and volumes.

Experience simplified disaster recovery with the new features in VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.3.

Site Recovery Manager 8.3 supports protection and orchestrated recovery of virtual machines (VMs) located on VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes datastores and replicated by array-based replication. Accelerate protection with automatic protection of VMs with vSphere Virtual Volumes and array-based replication, and seamless disk resizing with vSphere Replication.

You will see how Site Recovery Manager is easier and faster to manage with enhancements in the Site Recovery Manager HTML-5 user interface, the vSphere Replication configuration import/export tool, new public APIs, VMware vRealize Orchestrator workflows, vRealize Operations Management Packs and more.

This year, VMware announced a major release: VMware vSphere 7. Numerous storage features have been added in this release, such as NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF), shared VMDKs and affinity manager, to name a few. Learn about these external storage features and how they may be used in your environment.

VMware vSphere 7 introduced an entirely new solution for unified software and firmware lifecycle management that is native to vSphere. vSphere Lifecycle Manager is a powerful new framework based on a desired state model to deliver simple, reliable and consistent lifecycle operations for vSphere and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) clusters. We have brought this exciting new capability to you by partnering with our VMware vSAN ReadyNode server vendors for a simplistic yet integrated approach to updating firmware and software together—all from the comfort of VMware vCenter. If you want to learn how to simplify your next HCI upgrade, then you are in the right place.

Join Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping as they discuss the new VMware vSAN 7.0 features. One of the major enhancements to vSAN 7.0 is the inclusion of file services. Now, vSAN can offer both block volumes and file shares to your applications. Not only that, with improvements made in the VMware vSphere Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, containerized applications can request block-based Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and also dynamically request vSAN based file shares. Duncan and Cormac will take you through all of this, with lots of technical content and demos. This session should appeal to customers already using vSAN, as well as to customers considering vSAN. It should also be a useful session to customers researching how to provide storage for both virtual machine and containerized workloads.

Join Sazzala Reddy (co-founder of Datrium, ex-CTO of Data Domain) & Nabil Quadri (VMware Product Manager of DRaaS) as they detail the newest member of the VMware Cloud family. Traditional data protection and DR solutions have many moving parts which makes things complex, expensive and unreliable. Newer cloud backup solutions promise lower costs but force a compromise on recovery time, scale, and performance. Meanwhile, ransomware is increasingly causing large-scale outages and these other solutions can’t help. Dive deep into how DR with VMware succeeds where others fail, with the Datrium solution’s powerful DR workflows wrapped in a super-simple, modern SaaS experience and the operational consistency of VMware Cloud. Learn about continuous compliance checks, immutable backups & always-on data integrity, and see the service in action.