Prepare for 2019 with The Right Hyperconverged…

Prepare for 2019 with The Right Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Prepare for 2019 with The Right Hyperconverged…

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.


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Marc Huppert – Architecting VMware vSAN for…

Marc Huppert – Architecting VMware vSAN for Performance the VCDX way

Marc Huppert – Architecting VMware vSAN for…

What is needed to create a High-Performance vSAN environment? I will cover the architecture for vSAN Hybrid and All-Flash for ROBO and Stretched Enterprise environments. You will get a deep sight into the vSAN Architecture thoughts from real live customer implementations combined with live demos on the configuration. *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes:…Read More


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New book: VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive

New book: VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive

New book: VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive

Advertise here with BSA Cormac Hogan and I have been working late nights and weekends over the past months to update our vSAN book material. Thanks Cormac, it was once again a pleasure working with you on this project! As you may know, we released two versions of a vSAN based book through VMware Press. The book was titled […] The post New book: VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive appeared first on Yellow Bricks.


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#StorageMinute: vSAN Support Insight

#StorageMinute: vSAN Support Insight

#StorageMinute: vSAN Support Insight

Welcome to the #StorageMinute series where we deliver key topics via bite-size content. In this edition, we’ll go over vSAN Support Insight which is a next-generation platform for analytics of health, configuration, and performance telemetry. It delivers an innovative proactive vSAN support experience that accelerates the troubleshooting process, proactively reduces risk, and radically simplifies the overall customer support The post #StorageMinute: vSAN Support Insight appeared first on…Read More


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Why VMware IT Made vSAN the Backbone of Our…

Why VMware IT Made vSAN the Backbone of Our Hyperconverged Infrastructure Strategy

Why VMware IT Made vSAN the Backbone of Our…

By: Chanh Chi, Jerry Griffin, Tom Ralph, Larry Wong, and Zaigui Wang VMware vSAN™ enjoyed tremendous customer adoption since its release, especially in large-scale deployments. Naturally, customers wanted to know if VMware uses vSAN in its own mission-critical environments. The answer is absolutely, and then some. Originally, we only implemented vSAN in larger hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) The post Why VMware IT Made vSAN the Backbone of Our Hyperconverged Infrastructure Strategy…Read More


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vSAN’s 2018 Year in Review – Driving Industry…

vSAN’s 2018 Year in Review – Driving Industry Leadership

vSAN’s 2018 Year in Review – Driving Industry…

As the year draws to close, it’s fun to look back to recap the past year to see how far we’ve come. 2018 was a banner year for vSAN as we continued to drive industry leadership, and just in case you may have missed a few things, let’s take a quick look at our 2018 The post vSAN’s 2018 Year in Review – Driving Industry Leadership appeared first on Virtual Blocks.


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vSAN Erasure Coding Failure Handling

vSAN Erasure Coding Failure Handling

vSAN Erasure Coding Failure Handling

I had a very interesting question recently about how vSAN handles a failure in an object that is running with an erasure coding configuration. In the case of vSAN this is either a RAID-5 or a RAID-6. On vSAN, a RAID-5 is implemented with 3 data segments and 1 parity segment (3+1), with parity striped […] The post vSAN Erasure Coding Failure Handling appeared first on CormacHogan.com.


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Top 20 Articles for vSAN, November 2018

Top 20 Articles for vSAN, November 2018

Top 20 Articles for vSAN, November 2018

Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error “Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in vSAN enabled cluster” error vCenter Server 6.0 Update 2 displays on non-vSAN enabled ESXi hosts displays the message: Retrieve a ticket to register the vSAN VASA Provider Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products The The post Top 20 Articles for vSAN, November 2018 appeared first on VMware Support Insider.


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Testing SAP S/4HANA on Stretched Cluster for…

Testing SAP S/4HANA on Stretched Cluster for VMware Cloud on AWS

Testing SAP S/4HANA on Stretched Cluster for…

VMware vSphere® Metro Storage Cluster configurations (referred to as stretched storage clusters or metro storage clusters) are implemented across two datacenters with limited distance to provide benefits like: Workload mobility Cross-site automated load balancing Enhanced downtime avoidance. Stretched cluster deployment includes: maintaining two datacenter locations; deploying a single storage subsystem spanning both sites; stretching the The post Testing SAP S/4HANA on Stretched Cluster for…Read More


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New Book – VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive

New Book – VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive

New Book – VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive

VMware’s vSAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms and is one of the top three players in the hyperconverged space. Along the way, it has matured to offer unsurpassed features for data integrity, availability, and space efficiency. vSAN 6.7 U1 has radically simplified IT operations and supports the transition to hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). The authors of the vSAN Deep Dive have thoroughly updated their definitive guide…Read More


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Prepare for 2019 with The Right Hyperconverged…

Prepare for 2019 with The Right Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Prepare for 2019 with The Right Hyperconverged…

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.


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Kubernetes, Hadoop, Persistent Volumes and vSAN

Kubernetes, Hadoop, Persistent Volumes and vSAN

Kubernetes, Hadoop, Persistent Volumes and vSAN

At VMworld 2018, one of the sessions I presented on was running Kubernetes on vSphere, and specifically using vSAN for persistent storage. In that presentation (which you can find here), I used Hadoop as a specific example, primarily because there are a number of moving parts to Hadoop. For example, there is the concept of […] The post Kubernetes, Hadoop, Persistent Volumes and vSAN appeared first on CormacHogan.com.


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vSAN Failure Scenarios

vSAN Failure Scenarios

vSAN Failure Scenarios

vSAN provides both enterprise-class scale and performance suitable for businesses of all types and sizes. When designing a vSAN cluster, there are several things to consider, such as hardware, networking, and vSAN architecture. A good place to start is the vSAN Design and Sizing Guide but it’s important to understand how vSAN responds to the various The post vSAN Failure Scenarios appeared first on Virtual Blocks.


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For Three Years Running, VMware vSAN named the…

For Three Years Running, VMware vSAN named the CRN Product of the Year in the Software Defined Storage Category!

For Three Years Running, VMware vSAN named the…

VMware is pleased to announce that, for the third year in a row, vSAN is the CRN Product of the Year in the Software Defined Storage category. We are thankful for the recognition from our partner community, and we’re excited to see the continued leadership momentum. This year, vSAN was named a leader twice by The post For Three Years Running, VMware vSAN named the CRN Product of the Year in the Software Defined Storage Category! appeared first on Virtual Blocks.


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IT reaps the benefits of HCI for virtual…

IT reaps the benefits of HCI for virtual desktops and apps

IT reaps the benefits of HCI for virtual…

Hear from several hyper-converged infrastructure customers about the benefits of HCI for virtual desktop and application management and delivery, including how it can reduce logon times.


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