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VMware vSAN 6.6 launched – so What’s New?

VMware vSAN 6.6 launched – so What’s New?

Earlier this year it was announced that vSAN had grown to over 7000 customers since launch, which is a pretty decent number given the product went GA just over 3 years ago and we’re on the 6th iteration! What’s even more impressive is how quickly VMware are turning these updates around (almost every 6 months we get an update of sorts), we only got vSAN 6.5 at VMworld last year and 6 months later we now have version 6.6 – what’s funny is half my customers haven’t even started implementing their 6.5 upgrade plan yet and now they will have to re-write that plan…. Lol… =)

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SMART drive data now available using vSAN Management 6.6 API – http://www.virtuallyghetto.com

SMART drive data now available using vSAN…

One of the major storage enhancements that was introduced in vSphere 5.1 as part of the new I/O Device Management (IODM) framework was the addition of SMART (Self Monitoring, Analysis And Reporting Technology) data for monitoring FC, FCoE, iSCSI, SAS protocol statistics, this is especially useful for monitoring the health of an SSD device. Historically, there was not a public vSphere API to consume this information and customers had to rely on ESXCLI which is not very friendly from a programmatic standpoint.

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Where to find the Host Client vSAN section? – http://www.yellow-bricks.com

Where to find the Host Client vSAN section?

I had a couple of people asking already, so I figured I would do a short post on where to find the ESXi Host Client vSAN section. It is fairly straight forward, if you know where to click. Open the Host Client by going to https:// /ui. Next do the following: Click […] ” Where to find the Host Client vSAN section? ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.

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vSAN 6.6 Technical Overview Q1 FY18 [Video]

vSAN 6.6 Technical Overview Q1 FY18

Announcing the faster, more cost effective and more secure VMware vSAN 6.6! Learn what’s new, the benefits, and incentives at the Launch Resource Center: https://www.vmware.com/partners.html?apex/page?name=launchresources

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vSAN 6.6 – What’s In It For Service Providers – anthonyspiteri.net

vSAN 6.6 – What’s In It For Service Providers

Last February when VMware released VSAN 6.2 I stated that “Things had gotten Interesting” with regards to the 6.2 release of vSAN finally marking it’s arrival as a serious player in the Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) market. vSAN was ready to be taken very seriously by VMware’s competitors. Fast forward fourteen months and apart from the fact we have confirmed the v The post vSAN 6.6 – What’s In It For Service Providers appeared first on VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE! .

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RT @lamw: w00t! vSAN 6.6 (vSphere 6.5d) has GA’ed 🎉🎉🎉RN: https://t.co/IdRTISAjfu DL: https://t.co/B0Pnhmek0z Docs: https://t.co/wDAMmI8

w00t! vSAN 6.6 (vSphere 6.5d) has GA’ed 🎉🎉🎉RN:…

w00t! vSAN 6.6 (vSphere 6.5d) has GA’ed 🎉🎉🎉RN: https://t.co/IdRTISAjfu DL: https://t.co/B0Pnhmek0z Docs: https://t.co/wDAMmI8

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New vSAN Management 6.6 API / SDKs / CLIs – http://www.virtuallyghetto.com

New vSAN Management 6.6 API / SDKs / CLIs

With all the new awesome capabilities that have been introduced in vSAN 6.6, there is just as much Automation goodness that will be available for our customers to consume to help them easily mange and operate at scale. vSAN Management 6.6 API Below are all the new Managed Objects that have been introduced in the new vSAN Management 6.6 API. This […]

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RT @DuncanYB: New blog: vSAN 6.6 available now – https://t.co/s7SqL34exr

New blog: vSAN 6.6 available now -…

New blog: vSAN 6.6 available now – https://t.co/s7SqL34exr

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Erasure Coding and Quorum on vSAN – cormachogan.com

Erasure Coding and Quorum on vSAN

I was looking at the layout of RAID-5 object configuration the other day, and while these objects were deployed on vSAN with 4 components, something caught my eye. It wasn’t the fact that there were 4 components, which is what one would expect since we implement RAID-5 as a 3+1, i.e. 3 data segments and […] The post Erasure Coding and Quorum on vSAN appeared first on CormacHogan.com .

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vSAN 6.6 Encryption Configuration [greatwhitetec.com]

vSAN 6.6 Encryption Configuration

New on vSAN 6.6, vSAN native encryption for data at rest is now available. This feature does not require self-encrypting drives (SEDs). Encryption is supported on both all-flash and hybrid configurations of vSAN, and it is done at the datastore level. It is important to note that data is encrypted during the de-staging process, which … Continue reading vSAN 6.6 Encryption Configuration

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VMware vSAN is the first Hyper-Converged Infrastructure offering included in a DISA STIG

VMware vSAN is the first Hyper-Converged…

PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – April 13, 2017) – VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, announced today that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has added VMware vSAN®, VMware vSphere®-native storage that powers leading hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, to the VMware vSphere Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG). VMware vSAN is the first HCI solution for which DISA has released a STIG, and the STIG is available for immediate use by agencies within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

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Goodbye Multicast [blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks]

Goodbye Multicast

For a history of why Multicast was used, as well as what changed to prompt the shift read the history of vSAN multicast on storagehub. As vSAN technology and hardware have advanced we no longer need to use it for efficiency, or cluster discovery reasons.

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Easily try out vSAN 6.6 Encryption feature using KMIP Docker Container [www.virtuallyghetto.com]

Easily try out vSAN 6.6 Encryption feature…

One of biggest feature introduced in the upcoming vSAN 6.6 release is the native vSAN Data-at-Rest Encryption capability. My good friend Duncan Epping even posted a video recently demo’ing the feature and showing how easy it is to enable with just a couple of clicks. Just like VM Encryption which was introduced in vSphere 6.5, vSAN Encryption also requires a Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Server which needs to be associated with your vCenter Server.

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VMware vSAN 6.6 demo: vSAN Encryption [www.yellow-bricks.com]

VMware vSAN 6.6 demo: vSAN Encryption

Yesterday I posted a quick video overview of a couple new features that are part of vSAN 6.6. (haven’t seen it, go watch that one first!) I mentioned in that demo that I would potentially do one on Encryption. As I had over a dozen people asking already I figured I would throw a demo together today. Build an environment in our development cloud and below is the result. In the demo we will show how to configure vSAN Encryption and more. Enjoy.

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Why two stretched clusters cannot cross-host each others witness appliances! [cormachogan.com]

Why two stretched clusters cannot cross-host…

Sorry about the wordy title but this is a question that has come up a number of times. The request is that when I have two data sites and deploy two stretched clusters across these data sites, can the other stretched cluster support the witness appliance for this stretched cluster, and vice-versa? The answer is […] The post Why two stretched clusters cannot cross-host each others witness appliances! appeared first on CormacHogan.com .

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What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6 [blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks]

What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6

VMware vSAN has been innovating at a rapid pace. With each new release, we’ve delivered greater value to our customers through new features that have propelled adoption by mainstream customers for any workload, any application. More than 7,000 customers have chosen to entrust their most important workloads to vSAN! This momentum has not waned as vSAN recently won 3 industry awards for being the Product of the Year in this space!

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vSAN 6.6 – Native Data-at-Rest Encryption [blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks]

vSAN 6.6 – Native Data-at-Rest Encryption

Security is top of mind for many of you. VMware introduced advanced security for the modern data centers with the release of vSphere 6.5, and we are excited to now be extending security to vSAN with the industry’s first native HCI security solution.

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VMware vSAN 6.6 – What’s New for Day 2 Operations? [vninja.net]

VMware vSAN 6.6 – What’s New for Day 2 Operations?

VMware har just announced vSAN v6.6, with over 20 new features. While new and shiny features are nice I’d like to highlight a couple that I think might be undervalued from release feature-set perspective, but highly valuable in day to day operations of a vSAN environment, otherwise known as Day 2 operations.

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VMware’s New vSAN 6.6 Improves Its Hyper-Converged Infrastructure With Increased Security, Performance [www.crn.com]

VMware’s New vSAN 6.6 Improves Its…

VMware says vSAN 6.6 is the first hyper-converged infrastructure technology to include native encryption and to support Intel’s new Optane 3D XPoint SSD technology.

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VMware vSAN 6.6 Announced [www.vladan.fr]

VMware vSAN 6.6 Announced

The release number of next release VMware vSAN is 6.6. A first thing to mention is that VMware vSAN is no longer tightened to major VMware vSphere releases, which means that starting vSAN 6.6 we will see the progress of vSAN independently on vSphere. VMware vSAN entered already its 6th iteration (correct me if I’m wrong). We are following this exciting technology since the beginning, and the readers of our blog certainly remember the excitement we keep, about this technology, going forward.

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