Hybrid cloud storage infrastructure is rapidly evolving to meet the demands of the most complex workloads. Learn how VMware is advancing the VMware vSphere external storage stack to address these workloads now and in the future. This session will cover storage topics, including vSphere Virtual Volumes, VMFS, NFS, NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF), and iSCSI for on-premises and cloud deployments.

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.

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.

With all the numerous storage arrays and connectivity protocols available today, it’s important to know configuration best practices. New core storage features were released with VMware vSphere 7, and setting them up correctly is critical to optimum performance and resilience. We will review the new and some common features, and the best configuration practices.

Do you want to enable all the functionality of your external storage with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)? Virtual Volumes (vVols) the solution! VCF enables enterprises to manage their private and public clouds at scale. vVols enables VCF to easily scale by managing storage capabilities via policy instead of Storage vMotion, eliminating the need to individually manage LUNs or volumes in your WLD. When you think of the conceivable scale VCF allows, managing LUNs and volumes can be daunting—not so with vVols. With VCF, you can also enable large-scale functionality, such as Kubernetes cloud native storage. You will learn the benefits of vVols and how it integrates with VCF as a principle or supplemental storage.

VMware vSphere now comes with an enriched storage control plane to provision and manage storage for containerized applications orchestrated by Kubernetes. In this session, you will learn how cloud native storage enables stateful applications running on Kubernetes to be deployed on the vSphere platform using any of the vSphere persistent storage options. Now, VI admins can easily manage containerized applications with the same operational consistency of managing virtualized applications. Using Kubernetes native CLI and VMware vCenter, you will see how storage can be deployed with policy-based management, how you can monitor these container volumes in vCenter, and how to remediate faults.