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Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies 2nd Edition–Now Available

Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies 2nd…

The Data Center Has Evolved — Has Your Infrastructure Kept Up? Maintaining an agile data center infrastructure tends to be a source of headaches for IT leaders and administrators. It doesn’t have to be. Modern enterprises are facing growing infrastructure challenges. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) evolves the way that compute, storage, and management are delivered and … Continued The post Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies 2nd Edition–Now Available appeared first on Virtual Blocks…Read More

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Tech Zone Wrap-up: Everything About VMware vSAN 8 Update 1 and More

Tech Zone Wrap-up: Everything About VMware vSAN…

Catch up on the latest insights and updates on VMware vSAN 8 Update 1 and other exciting tech developments on Tech Zone.

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vSAN Objects Viewer

vSAN Objects Viewer

When troubleshooting vSAN issues, we need to complete understanding of the vSAN environment. Today I will introduce a good tool “vSAN Objects Viewer” that quickly converts vSAN information from text to graphics, including the followings: vSAN cluster topology vSAN nodes information vSAN disk […]

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vSphere Virtual Volumes vVols

vSphere Virtual Volumes vVols

vVols implements the core tenants of the VMware Software-Defined Storage vision to enable a fundamentally more efficient operational model for external storage.

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5 Benefits of Using vVols or vSAN for vSphere Tanzu Persistent Volumes

5 Benefits of Using vVols or vSAN for vSphere…

vVols and vSAN provide a common control plane, Storage Policy Based Management, by which you can manage your external storage array and internal vSAN HCI storage capabilities. These capabilities are now applied at the Persistent Volume level rather than the Datastore level. This increases […]

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New Whitepaper: How VMware vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture Reduces TCO …

New Whitepaper: How VMware vSAN 8 with Express…

Organizations across all sizes and industries are becoming more digital. With the digitalization of business comes an explosion of applications and data, both essential for companies. Data has grown roughly 50% per year; thus, organizations have seen their storage needs grow to accommodate […]

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VMware vSAN for Azure VMware Solution

VMware vSAN for Azure VMware Solution

VMware vSAN is the default storage platform for the Azure VMware Solution (AVS) private cloud. This document provides an overview of the vSAN configuration, storage policies, monitoring, and additional information specific to AVS.

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Supporting Apps at the Edge with VMware vSAN

Supporting Apps at the Edge with VMware vSAN

In today’s technology-driven environment, businesses of all sizes across every vertical operate under a digital-first strategy. As businesses add new digital capabilities, services and experiences, workloads are increasingly being hosted locally to ensure high performance and low latency. While edge deployments equip organizations with real-time processing needed to support local applications, infrastructure challenges can arise, … Continued The post Supporting Apps at the Edge with VMware…Read More

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📚 New book: VMware vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture Deep Dive!

📚 New book: VMware vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage…

Here it finally is… The new book, the VMware vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture Deep Dive! It has been a year since we release the vSAN 7.0 U3 Deep Dive book, and with this brand new vSAN architecture being introduced in vSAN 8.0 we figured it was time to do a full overhaul […]

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Now Available: vSAN 8 Update 1 for Cloud Services Providers

Now Available: vSAN 8 Update 1 for Cloud…

Learn about how the VMware vSAN 8 update 1 for cloud services providers can improve scale, performance and monitoring of vSAN operations, including improvements for Express Storage Architecture (ESA) and Skyline.

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VMware Retains #1 HCI Software Vendor Title In Latest IDC Report (Q4 2022)

VMware Retains #1 HCI Software Vendor Title In…

Storage Review covers IDC’s Worldwide Converged Systems Tracker for Q4 2022, which named VMware the dominant HCI Software market player.

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vSAN 8 U1 Express Storage Architecture – Faster than Ever

vSAN 8 U1 Express Storage Architecture – Faster…

Have you ever wondered just how much faster the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) is than the Original Storage Architecture (OSA) in vSAN? This post summarizes some particularly challenging applications and workloads to give you a better understanding of performance differences when […]

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vSAN 8.0 U1 ESA – Auto Policy Management

vSAN 8.0 U1 ESA – Auto Policy Management

In this demo, I give a brief overview of how Auto-Policy Management work in vSAN 8.0 U1 ESA. Make sure to also read the blog post: […]

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Cloud Providers: vSAN 8 Update 1 Will Soon Release

Cloud Providers: vSAN 8 Update 1 Will Soon Release

VMware vSAN 8 update 1 is coming soon for our cloud services providers. This release expands on important areas such as improved performance, additional capabilities for the Express Storage Architecture (ESA) and manageability and core platform enhancements. Leverage the newest update to […]

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vSAN 8.0 U1 ESA – Auto Policy Management

vSAN 8.0 U1 ESA – Auto Policy Management

One of the features that is introduced in vSAN 8.0 U1 for ESA is Auto-Policy Management. I personally love this feature, as it will help a lot of customers make the right decision in terms of what the default policy should be on their vSAN Datastore. Now, Pete Koehler wrote a very extensive blog […]

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VMware vSAN 8 Update 1 for Cloud Services Providers

VMware vSAN 8 Update 1 for Cloud Services…

Recently, VMware announced the upcoming release of vSAN 8 Update 1. This latest update enhances vSAN’s capabilities and functionality with additional improvements for performance, data durability, and integration. Cloud Services Providers who are leveraging the capabilities of vSAN 8 can […]

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Enhanced Performance Diagnostics tools for vSAN 8 U1

Enhanced Performance Diagnostics tools for vSAN…

Visit these other VMware sites for additional resources and content.|Communities|Customer Connect|VMware.com You are about to be redirected to the central VMware login page. Here you can create an account, or login with your existing Customer Connect / Partner Connect / Customer Connect ID. Check this box to ignore this message in the future.Direct me to VMware Sign In March 22, 2023 Customer satisfaction is paramount for VMware™. VMware vSAN™ 8 U1 introduces three improvements to help ensure…Read More

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vSAN I/O Trip analyzer task scheduling in vSAN 8 U1

vSAN I/O Trip analyzer task scheduling in vSAN…

The vSAN VM I/O trip analyzer was a great addition when it was introduced to vSAN 7 U3, as it helped administrators identify the potential source of a performance bottleneck on VM workloads. In vSAN 8 U1, the VM I/O Trip Analyzer has been enhanced to include […]

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vSAN 8.0 U1 – Disaggregated Storage Enhancements!

vSAN 8.0 U1 – Disaggregated Storage Enhancements!

With vSAN 8.0 U1 a lot of new features and enhancements are introduced. There are many blog posts out there describing the long list of enhancements, but in this post, I want to focus on HCI Mesh or Disaggregated vSAN specifically. (Also read this post by Cato!) For this feature, which in the UI […]

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Discover what’s new in vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN 8.0 U1

Discover what’s new in vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN…

We (the Unexplored Territory team) work with the vSphere release team to get you the latest information about the new releases as quickly as possible. This week we published two new episodes discussing what’s new with vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN 8.0 U1. To enjoy the content, you can listen to them […]

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