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Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Enterprise Storage Predictions for 2020 and Beyond

Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Enterprise…

Listen to VMware’s Lee Caswell, Vice President of Marketing with VMware’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure Business Unit and IDC’s Eric Burgener, Vice President of Research for Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group discuss the future of HCI in the data center. Lee and Eric discuss the reasons why enterprises are rapidly adopting HCI, including growing capabilities that enable it to take on more business-critical applications. They also discuss how hyperconverged infrastructure is changing IT careers, impacting the organizational design of IT and changing the role of the infrastructure administrator. Finally, Lee and Eric discuss how HCI supports modern applications and provides investment protection by integrating with…Read More

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Innovation was at an all-time high for vSAN in 2019!

Innovation was at an all-time high for vSAN in…

Any business that develops a solution, whether it’s a tangible product or a new service, knows there’s really only one measure of success – and that’s what the customer thinks of it.

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VMware vSAN: What Is It, and How Does It Help Businesses?

VMware vSAN: What Is It, and How Does It Help…

Ask someone about the benefits of VMware vSAN, and this will typically be their top three priorities. But what exactly is the solution, and what does it do? And on a more granular level, how does vSAN support data encryption, what are the advantages of different cluster types, and what’s…Read More

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VMware vSAN: Simplicity in Action

VMware vSAN: Simplicity in Action

This hyperconverged platform connects IT infrastructure for improved efficiency and management.

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Assessment…

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A holiday promo for the vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive Book (@DuncanYB, @CormacJHogan)

A holiday promo for the vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive…

A very short post to let you know that Duncan and I are doing a holiday promotion for our vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive book. We will start the promotion for the e-book on December 24th, when we will lower the price of the e-book to just US $0.99 (Amazon.com) and UK £0.99 (Amazon.co.uk). The price will then gradually rise back to the original price over the following 10 days. Unfortunately, Amazon does not allow publishers to create promotions on every site, so this promotion will only be available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. For the paper copy of the book, we…

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Can I still provision VMs when a vSAN Stretched Cluster site has failed? Part II

Can I still provision VMs when a vSAN Stretched…

Advertise here with BSA 3 years ago I wrote the following post: Can I still provision VMs when a VSAN Stretched Cluster site has failed? Last week I received a question on this subject, and although officially I am not supposed to work on vSAN in the upcoming three months I figured I could test this in the evening […]

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A holiday promo for the vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive Book

A holiday promo for the vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive Book

A very short post to let you know that Duncan and I are doing a holiday promotion for our vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive book. We will start the promotion for the e-book on December 24th, when we will lower the price of the e-book to just US $0.99 (Amazon.com) and UK £0.99 (Amazon.co.uk). The price will then gradually rise back to the original price over the following 10 days. Unfortunately, Amazon does not allow publishers to create promotions on every site, so this promotion will only be available on…Read More

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Dell To Become ‘Six-Times’ Bigger Than Nutanix, Says Michael Dell

Dell To Become ‘Six-Times’ Bigger Than Nutanix,…

Michael Dell expects Dell Technologies to widen its hyperconverged infrastructure leadership position significantly in the future, with the goal to become upwards of six-times larger than nearest competitor Nutanix.

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Oracle RAC storage migration from non-vSAN to vSAN 6.7 P01 – Through Thick to Thin

Oracle RAC storage migration from non-vSAN to…

Storage migration of an Oracle RAC from non-vSAN Storage to vSAN 6.7 P01 – No remediation required for shared disks anymore This blog is a follow up of the previous blog post “Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s”. This blog describes The post Oracle RAC storage migration from non-vSAN to vSAN 6.7 P01 – Through Thick to Thin appeared first on Virtualize Applications.

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#StorageMinute: VMware vSAN Live Mobile Client App

#StorageMinute: VMware vSAN Live Mobile Client App

VMware vSAN Live mobile app provides vSAN users instant insights into their hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environments from their mobile devices. Watch the video to learn more!

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Top 20 articles for vSAN, November 2019

Top 20 articles for vSAN, November 2019

Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Thick-provisioned VMs onhttps://kb.vmware.com/s/article/ vSAN detected on vSAN-health check “Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in vSAN enabled cluster” error VASA Provider Registration Troubleshooting vSAN Health Service – Online Health – Controller Utility Is Installed on Host Unable to retrieve vSAN related information via HTML5 The post Top 20 articles for vSAN, November 2019 appeared first on VMware…Read More

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#StorageMinute – VMware vSAN Live Mobile Client App

#StorageMinute – VMware vSAN Live Mobile Client…

Welcome to the #StorageMinute series, where we deliver key topics via bite-size content. In this edition, we look at the new VMware vSAN Live mobile client app. VMware vSAN Live mobile app provides vSAN users instant insights into their hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environments from their mobile devices. Instead of stopping, signing into a laptop, and then logging in remotely to The post #StorageMinute – VMware vSAN Live Mobile Client App appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s

Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero…

Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s Read my lips – “No More Eager Zero Thick (EZT) requirement for Oracle RAC multi-writer disks starting VMware vSAN 6.7 P01 (ESXi 6.7 Patch Release ESXi670-201912001)” This blog addresses an important update for running The post Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s appeared first on Virtualize Applications.

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Five Tips for a Successful BYO vSAN Cluster

Five Tips for a Successful BYO vSAN Cluster

Guest blog author Sidharth Swami wrote this article. He is a Sr. Technical Account Manager here at VMware. As such Sidharth spends a lot of time with customers in real-world environments. Thank you, Sidharth, for sharing your time and expertise regarding build-your-own (BYO) vSAN clusters. vSAN Turn-key Appliances and vSAN ReadyNodes are Recommended One of the many The post Five Tips for a Successful BYO vSAN Cluster appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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Check the @vmwarevsan Operations Guidance. A new document on #StorageHub that was developed to provide practical guidance for @VmwarevSphere administrators =>

New Guidance on vSAN Operations

VMware vSAN Operations Guidance is a new document on StorageHub that was developed to provide practical guidance for vSphere administrators who are looking for advice on the day-to-day operation of vSAN. Read on to learn more.

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vSAN 2019 Specialist exam review

vSAN 2019 Specialist exam review

This VMworld (2019 EU), I went for the vSAN Specialist 2019 exam (5V0-21.19) and associated badge. My current (2017 version) badge recently got retired so it was time for an update. The badge itself…

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A Closer Look at vSAN Snapshots

A Closer Look at vSAN Snapshots

A frequent conversation I have with customers is how vSAN snapshots differ from standard VMFS Snapshots. In this post, I want to identify the architectural differences and how they significantly enhance vSAN performance when compared to previous virtual machine snapshot implementations. vmfsSparse Snapshots vmfsSparse, commonly referred to as the redo log format, is the original The post A Closer Look at vSAN Snapshots appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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New Guidance on vSAN Operations

New Guidance on vSAN Operations

A vSAN powered environment ushers in unprecedented levels of flexibility across a variety of topologies. This flexibility leads to inevitable questions around recommended practices and guidance. These are questions that may come up prior to or during the time of installation, configuration, and operation, but the answers may not be found in step-by-step guides or The post New Guidance on vSAN Operations appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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Performance Capabilities in Relation to vSAN Cluster Size

Performance Capabilities in Relation to vSAN…

The flexibility of cluster design and sizing is one of the key benefits with vSAN. This naturally leads to questions on the performance capabilities of vSAN relative to cluster size. Will an application run faster if the cluster consists of more hosts versus fewer hosts? The simple answer is “no” and has been covered in The post Performance Capabilities in Relation to vSAN Cluster Size appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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