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Datastax, Cassandra and VMware vSAN powered HCI

Datastax, Cassandra and VMware vSAN powered HCI

This blog was co-authored by Kathryn Erickson, Director of Strategic Partnerships at DataStax Enterprise Cloud native applications can prove challenging to deploy, as the most efficient means of deployment may require building out a unique silo to handle the specific storage requirements of the platform. While it is true that you can force these The post Datastax, Cassandra and VMware vSAN powered HCI appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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A closer look at EBS-backed vSAN

A closer look at EBS-backed vSAN

At VMworld 2018, we announced an initiative to use EBS, Amazon Elastic Block Store, for vSAN storage. At present vSAN is configured using the current EC2 i3 configurations, which run ESXi on bare-metal. I have seen these referred to as i3p, but my understanding is that they correlate to the i3.metal instances as shown here. […] The post A closer look at EBS-backed vSAN appeared first on CormacHogan.com.

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Creating a vSAN based vSphere Cluster HomeLab by Klaus Aschenbrenner

Creating a vSAN based vSphere Cluster

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vSAN Hands on Labs

Give vSAN 6.7 a try

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.

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Announcing vSAN Stretched Cluster support on VMware Cloud Foundation 3.0

Announcing vSAN Stretched Cluster support on…

VMware Cloud Foundation has been the solution of choice for Enterprise IT administrators looking for a turn-key software-defined data center solution. Fundamentally, VMware Cloud Foundation brings together the different virtualization technologies – compute, storage, networking and management – to enable customers to build and operate a private or hybrid cloud as a single entity in The post Announcing vSAN Stretched Cluster support on VMware Cloud Foundation 3.0 appeared first on Cloud…Read More

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Announcing the First VMware vSAN and Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX joint solution for Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program

Announcing the First VMware vSAN and Fujitsu…

We are pleased to announcing the first joint solution white paper listing on Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP): “Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSAN 20,000 User Mailbox Exchange 2016 Mailbox Resiliency Storage Solution”, published together by VMware and Fujitsu. This program is designed to certify third party storage to pass series of testing to satisfy the The post Announcing the First VMware vSAN and Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX joint solution for Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed…Read More

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Converting 2 Node vSAN to 3 Node vSAN using the vSphere 6.7 U1 Cluster Quickstart

Converting 2 Node vSAN to 3 Node vSAN using the…

In this video, a 2 Node vSAN Cluster with Witness Traffic Separation is converted to a 3 Node vSAN Cluster. PowerCLI is used to disable Witness Traffic Separation, and the vSphere 6.7 U1 Cluster Quickstart is used to add a 3rd host to the cluster. The PowerCLI command used to untag ‘witness’ traffic is: Get-Cluster -Name CLUSTERNAME | Get-VMHost | Get-EsxCli -v2 | % { $_.vsan.network.remove.Invoke(@{interfacename=’vmk0′})}

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A Closer Look at vSAN Maintenance Mode

A Closer Look at vSAN Maintenance Mode

vSAN 6.7 U1 introduces several enhancements and improved safeguards when performing maintenance and decommissioning activities on vSAN hosts. vSAN Maintenance Mode now has a pre-check simulation, new warnings for hosts already in maintenance mode and ongoing resyncs. In addition, the object repair timer previously only available in the CLI is now available in the UI. The post A Closer Look at vSAN Maintenance Mode appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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TestDrive for vSAN is now Available

TestDrive for vSAN is now Available

Test Drive for vSAN is a great way to show customers, in a demonstration environment, how vSAN can help them meet their storage needs in a convenient, cost-effective, and flexible manner. Learn more. The post TestDrive for vSAN is now Available appeared first on Partner News .

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If vSAN Powered The Matrix, Extended Edition

If vSAN Powered The Matrix, Extended Edition

The presentation featured in this post is from the October 2018 Dallas VMUG UserCon and is the extended edition of an idea born from a vBrownBag presentation at VMworld 2017. After giving that pre…Read More

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Powering Intelligent Edge with VMware vSAN and HPE

Powering Intelligent Edge with VMware vSAN and HPE

Co-Author – Bhumik Patel – Technical Alliances Director, VMware Since last few years, customers have been enabling Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO) use cases with VMware vSAN as the hyper-converged storage solution. One of the major use cases for leveraging distributed storage at ROBO locations is that this makes them self-sustained in running applications The post Powering Intelligent Edge with VMware vSAN and HPE appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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From my friend @fabianwiese: vSAN description (German)

Was ist VMware vSAN? Part II

Fabian25. Oktober 2018 Keine Kommentare Design, VMware, vSAN

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Understanding vSAN Encryption – Updating a KMS Client Certificate

Understanding vSAN Encryption – Updating a KMS…

A question came up the other day where a customer had the KMS client certificate was about to expire. The initial client certificate was created with an expiration roughly a year after their encrypted vSAN Cluster installation. vSAN Health Check The vSAN Health Check will report on the status of the client certificate each time The post Understanding vSAN Encryption – Updating a KMS Client Certificate appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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Oracle Database on all-flash vSAN 6.7 Reference Architecture

Oracle Database on all-flash vSAN 6.7 Reference…

Customers deploying Oracle Database have requirements such as stringent SLAs, consistent performance, and high availability. It can be a major challenge for organizations to manage data storage in these environments due to these demanding business requirements. Common issues in using traditional storage solutions for business-critical applications include inability to easily scale-up and scale-out, storage inefficiency, complex The post Oracle Database on all-flash vSAN 6.7 Reference…Read More

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What’s new in vSAN 6.7U1

What’s new in vSAN 6.7U1

Yesterday, we saw the announcement that VMware has release vSphere 6.7U1. This includes new releases of vCenter Server 6.7U1, ESXi 6.7U1 and of course vSAN 6.7U1. All of the hyperlinks here will take you to the release notes of that particular product. In this post, I just want to briefly run through some of the […] The post What’s new in vSAN 6.7U1 appeared first on CormacHogan.com .

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vSAN 6.7 U1

vSAN 6.7 U1 has landed

vSAN 6.7 U1 makes it even easier to adopt HCI and build a Digital Foundation. Key areas where vSAN 6.7 U1 provides additional benefits include the simplification of day one and two operations, lowering the total cost of ownership with more efficient infrastructure, and even more rapid support with ReadyCare.

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More vSAN Cmdlets in PowerCLI 11!

More vSAN Cmdlets in PowerCLI 11!

There’s a new release of PowerCLI, and it includes some more vSAN goodness! We’ve added some capabilities previously found in the Ruby vSphere Console and have also updated a couple of the existing modules The new and updated cmdlets include: Get-VsanObject makes it easy to get information about a vSAN Object or a VM’s The post More vSAN Cmdlets in PowerCLI 11! appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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Deploying the vSAN Witness Appliance within VMware Cloud on AWS

Deploying the vSAN Witness Appliance within…

Shortly after clarifying that VMware Cloud on AWS is a supported hosting environment for the vSAN Witness Appliance, there was a rush of inquiries into what is involved in its’ setup. Deploying a vSAN Witness Appliance in VMware Cloud on AWS is a straightforward process. Since the Witness Appliance is running as a client workload The post Deploying the vSAN Witness Appliance within VMware Cloud on AWS appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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VVols & vSAN Interoperability: The Key to Integrating AFAs, HCI and Public Cloud

VVols & vSAN Interoperability: The Key to…

Authored by Vaughn Stewart, VP, Technology Alliance Partners, Pure Storage, Inc. All-Flash Arrays, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, and the Public Cloud – the three building blocks underpinning IT infrastructure modernization efforts. Individually each architecture provides tremendous advantages; however, collectively they can be a challenge to integrate into a comprehensive hybrid cloud strategy. VMware vSphere provides The post VVols & vSAN Interoperability: The Key to Integrating AFAs, HCI…Read More

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Top 20 Articles for vSAN,September 2018

Top 20 Articles for vSAN,September 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,September 2018 appeared first on VMware Support Insider .

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