VMware vSAN and HCI offer secure shared storage for VMs
VMware vSAN and HCI work together to provide secure shared storage for vSphere VMs through native encryption, all-flash storage support, integrated clusters and availability features. Understand the inner workings of vSAN HCI technology and choose the best implementation option for your environment.
Fun with PKS, K8s, MongoDB Helm Charts and vSAN
I’ve been spending a bit of time lately look at our Heptio Velero product, and how it works with various cloud native applications. Next application on my list is MongoDB, another NoSQL database. I looked at various deployment mechanisms for MongoDB, and it seems that using Helm Charts is the most popular approach. This led […] The post Fun with PKS, K8s, MongoDB Helm Charts and vSAN appeared first on CormacHogan.com.
VXRAIL 4.7 – SCALE OUT IN HTML5 CLIENT
In VxRail 4.5, we can ONLY perform the node expansion in VxRail Manager. In VxRail 4.7, it releases the vCenter Plugin for VxRail Manager. Now we can expand the VxRail cluster with vCenter Plugin, only perform six simple procedures to complete the VxRail cluster expansion. When the new node detect..
A Community List of AWESOME VMware vSAN Resources
Awesome List of VMware vSan resources. Contribute to valdecircarvalho/awesome-vsan development by creating an account on GitHub.
vSAN Misconceptions: Drivers and Firmware Don’t Matter
This is a guest post from Adam Sweetser, Senior Technical Support Engineer, vSAN GSS. Adam provides vSAN support to, and speaks with real customers day in and day out, about real-world issues. vSphere is the enterprise-grade hypervisor that has been used to run business-critical workloads by more than 500,000 VMware customers for years. It is commonly The post vSAN Misconceptions: Drivers and Firmware Don’t Matter appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
Book Giveaway – vSAN Fan March Madness is here!
March Madness is here, and for college basketball fans the NCAA tournament in March and April is the what you wait for all year. For vSAN Fans, we’re having a different kind of tournament. During the next four weeks in March and April, we’re giving those of you who live and breathe vSAN multiple opportunities The post Book Giveaway – vSAN Fan March Madness is here! appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
vSAN Snippets: Reporting Drive Location & More
An internal request came up asking for the ability to return the enclosure location of a vSAN disk. This information can sometimes be returned from the esxcli command utility, for some storage controllers, using the following command: esxcli storage core device physical get -d The resulting output looks something like this: Having to The post vSAN Snippets: Reporting Drive Location & More appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
VMware Cloud Foundation On VxRail Is ‘Just Genius’
‘It’s just genius to see how Dell and VMware can bring this all together and make one operating system for the multi-cloud world,’ says Vinu Thomas, chief technology officer at Presidio.
Performance Tuning your vSAN / VxRail Environment
Recently, I have been getting a lot of questions around how to build vSAN for high performing workloads. This article is intended to cover hardware differences, slack space, what is vSAN namespace, object, component, Raid-1 vs Raid-5/6, and stripe width, which all can impact performance…Read More
#StorageMinute: Elastic vSAN
Learn about Elastic vSAN features. For more information visit https://cloud.vmware.com
Future Proof Your IT: Choosing the Right HCI Solution
Learn how HCI enables more efficient management of compute and storage resources, and how vSAN and VxRail give administrators the ability to scale with confidence and agility. Watch the Dell EMC & VMware webcasts on demand.
Top Recommendations for Managing VMware vSAN Webcast – March 20
Are you sure you’re getting the highest levels of uptime and performance with VMware vSAN? Join our webcast on March 20 for our top recommendations. RSVP today!
Prepare for 2019 with The Right Hyperconverged Infrastructure
HCI is far from a commodity and different vendors offer their own concepts of what HCI is and how it should be deployed. As an IT decision-maker, you have to evaluate what makes sense for your organization. We’ll make it a little easier.
#StorageMinute: Elastic vSAN
Welcome to the #StorageMinute series where we deliver key topics via bite-size content. In this edition, we will take a look at Elastic vSAN inside the VMware Cloud on AWS Service. Elastic vSAN is an innovative new solution in the VMware Cloud on AWS Service that combines Amazons Elastic Block Store offering and The post #StorageMinute: Elastic vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
VMware vSAN v6.7 Intro Hands-on Lab
Explore vSAN’s features-data-encryption at rest, deduplication and compression, RAID 5/6 erasure encoding, iSCSI Target support and more-in free Hands-on Labs, the fastest and easiest way to test-drive vSAN, no installation required.
#vSANChat & #vSphereChat: HCI Admin Year in Review
We just wrapped up our second official vSAN & vSphere joint chat! Our chat featured the best of both worlds, John Nicholson and Nigel Hickey, representing vSAN and vSphere. Our subject matter experts spent the hour chatting about life as a virtual admin, starting from Day 0 through Day 365, inspired by the Life of The post #vSANChat & #vSphereChat: HCI Admin Year in Review appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure?
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) combines compute, storage & networking into a single system under unified management. Learn the benefits & how to get started today.
Explore VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN powers hyperconverged infrastructure solutions with vSphere-native, flash-optimized storage for private and public cloud deployments. Try it today at no cost!
Native SQL Server Cluster support on vSAN
In the latest of a seemingly continuous stream of enhancements, we are pleased to share Microsoft SQL Server Cluster support on vSAN. This support has been added in the latest release of the VMware Cloud on AWS Service (1.6) and adds SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation (SCSI3-PR) support to vSAN. Initially released to the VMware Cloud on The post Native SQL Server Cluster support on vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 107: The State of vSAN
This week VMware published its fourth-quarter financials, beating market expectations and announcing record annual revenue for fiscal 2019. Since a big part of this success is attributed to the steady growth of vSAN, we thought it was time for a State of vSAN episode. This week we welcome back VP of Products, Lee Caswell and The post vSpeaking Podcast Episode 107: The State of vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
