Read Locality in Hybrid 2 Node Virtual SAN – Virtual Blocks
A question was asked the other day about the performance behavior of a virtual machine after a vMotion on a 2 Node Virtual SAN configuration. The question basically was: “Should there be a degradation in read performance after a virtual machine is vMotioned to the alternate host in a Hybrid 2 Node Virtual SAN configuration?”
Excellent VSAN site: “vSAN Essentials 6.2” – Duncan and Corman
When talking about virtualization and the underlying infrastructure that it runs on, one component that always comes up in conversation is storage. The reason for this is fairly simple: In many environments, storage is a pain point. Although the storage landscape has changed with the introduction of flash technologies that mitigate many of the traditional storage issues, many organizations have not yet adopted these new architectures and are still running into the same challenges.
Migrating Workloads onto vSAN
This light-board video describes the different options available to migrate workloads onto a vSAN datastore.
vSAN in the Cloud – Lightboard Tutorial
In this video, we explain the benefits of deploying vSAN in your cloud – private, multi-tenant or hybrid – and discuss into architectural recommendations and best practices.
vSAN in the Cloud
When it comes to cloud environments, less is often more. For example, less complexity in your networks can lead to more productivity. Similarly, less legacy hardware means better efficiency. With VMware vSAN, Cloud Providers can get truly get more out of less. VMware vSAN simplifies cloud IT while reducing costs on hardware and resources The post vSAN in the Cloud appeared first on VMware Cloud Provider Blog .
Powering Your Business-Critical Applications with VMware vSAN
Whenever disruptive technology meets well-established paradigms, it takes time for everyone to “get the memo”. Many enterprises are simply conservative and don’t like change, while others believe that adopting “1.0” version is asking for trouble. (Hard to argue with that last one!) Very rarely do you come across a product that is both mature and The post Powering Your Business-Critical Applications with VMware vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
Access New vSAN Partner Marketing Kits
Designed to help you drive awareness and generate leads for vSAN, these online marketing kits (found in the ‘Market’ section) include campaign assets, templates, collateral plus recommendations on campaign execution. Plus view this Marketing Powerpack; it provides great guidance on the tools available. The post Access New vSAN Partner Marketing Kits appeared first on Partner News .
vSAN sparse swap files | virtual graveyard
With vSAN 6.2 you can save a lot of capacity if you use the new feature called “sparse VM swap object”. It will deploy the swap file of every VM store in vSAN as sparse. So you are able to safe nearly all of your VMs RAM inside the vSAN datastore. Setup: Use SSH/Putty to…Read More
vSAN Support Insight
vSAN Support Insight is a next-generation platform for analytics of health, configuration, and performance telemetry. It’s purpose is to help vSAN users maintain a reliable and consistent computing, storage and network environment.
Holiday gift: vSAN Essentials book available for free
Advertise here with BSA Christmas is coming so Cormac and I figured we would do something special for everyone, after a long debate we decided to make the vSAN Essentials book available for free. Note that this is the “Essential Virtual SAN” book which was published by VMware Press / Pearson and is based on the 6.2 version of […] ” Holiday gift: vSAN Essentials book available for free ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
What’s new with vSAN Hosted Evaluation Hands-On Lab
You can now explore a fully provisioned version of vSAN at your fingertips. No special hardware or licenses needed. Take Lab today!
VMware vSAN features in 6.6 signal bright future
Despite some limitations with all-flash performance, VMware vSAN features in version 6.6, like encryption, performance and resiliency, indicate great potential.
vSAN Network Architecture
This video explains how the vDS and network underlay may be designed to support a vSAN deployment.
vSAN Erasure Coding
This video explains how Erasure Coding (Raid 5/6) works with vSAN.
vSAN Failure Management
This video explains failure management with vSAN and how Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) can be leveraged to minimize or eliminate VM operational impact.
vSAN Data Placement
This video explains how vSAN decides where to place data components.
vSAN Objects
This video describes how vSAN leverages a new storage architecture of objects and components to efficiently distribute storage load in a vSAN cluster.
vSAN Stretched Clusters
This video explains stretched-cluster deployments with vSAN.
