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.

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.

This detailed, demo-focused walk-through of VMware Site Recovery Manager will include both advanced and basic functionality. We will cover the basic workflows at a detailed level, as well as things such as using scripts within recovery plans, VMware vCenter Orchestrator for configuring and reporting on Site Recovery Manager, IP customization, and much more. Find out how Site Recovery Manager is able to do what it does, and how that will benefit you when designing, building or using Site Recovery Manager as part of your disaster recovery toolkit.

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 vSAN is the largest and fastest growing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product in the market today. vSAN has always been at the forefront of technology innovation. In this session, we will cover the enhancements in the latest vSAN release, and how vSAN interoperates with other products across the entire software-defined data center (SDDC) stack. You will learn about some of the coolest innovations in vSAN (VMware HCI Mesh, file services, VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager, compression only) and advances in hardware enablement. We will also touch on some key management and monitoring enhancements, including how easy it is to install, manage and monitor vSAN for your daily operations. We will provide a demo of the newest features in core vSAN and full-stack HCI. This is one VMworld session you do not want to miss.

This top-rated session returns with all-new content on the internals of VMware vSAN, and takes a detailed technical view of the new and interesting ways VMware implements a distributed storage system. vSAN is built differently when compared to traditional storage systems, which gives it unprecedented capabilities and levels of flexibility. Learn about optimizations in the data path and the fascinating details behind our implementation of file services. This is your chance to better understand the reasons behind the vSAN architecture, and why it is the ideal storage platform for public clouds, such as VMware Cloud on AWS, and private clouds using VMware Cloud Foundation.

Learn what’s new with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware newest solution based on recently acquired Datrium provides a cost-effective option for your less stringent workloads, complementing VMware Site Recovery that provides a high-performance option for your mission critical workloads. Understand the key differences between these two approaches with respect to supported configurations and SLAs. Gain practical knowledge and best practices on how to leverage this new service from initial deployment to daily operations. When disaster strikes – know how to failover. And when all is clear – understand how to fail back from the cloud to normal operations.