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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 GA!!!

VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 GA!!!

Categories: Cool Stuff!, Virtual SAN Tags: VSAN Alright!!! it is one of those exciting weeks where VMware releases new products and goodies for all its customers. Along with vSphere Update 2, VMware has officially releasedthe latest and greatest version of Virtual SAN. There are so many great capabilities, features, and improvements in the 6.2 release that are absolutely worth […] (Read more…) The post VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 GA!!! appeared first on Punching Clouds.

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Is Now Generally Available!

Virtual SAN 6.2 Is Now Generally Available!

I am excited to announce the availability of VMware Virtual SAN 6.2, the 4th edition of the radically simple, vSphere-embedded storage solution that is powering HCI solutions at over 3,000 customers! Get your hands on it today by downloading an evaluation copy and see for yourself why VMware Hyper-Converged Software—the combination of Virtual SAN, vSphere and vCenter Server—is one of the most popular and fastest growing software platforms for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI).

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Virtualization The Future: Petabytes of Storage in VSAN 6.0

Virtualization The Future: Petabytes of Storage…

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Compare and Contrast – VSAN and VVols – CormacHogan.com

Compare and Contrast – VSAN and VVols -…

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to meet with a number of VMware customers in both Singapore and in the UAE. Most of the sessions were enablement and education type sessions, where there was a lot of white-boarding of VSAN (VMware’s hyper-converged infrastructure product) and Virtual Volumes (VVols – Software Defined Storage or SDS for the storage arrays). This wasn’t a sales session; I’m not in sales. The objective of these sessions was simply to educate. I guess when you are immersed in this stuff 24×7, it easy to fall into the trap of believing that everyone is well versed in this technology, and that’s simply not the case.

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VMware Virtual SAN Layer 2 and Layer 3 Network Topologies Whitepaper

VMware Virtual SAN Layer 2 and Layer 3 Network…

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-layer2-and-layer3-network-topologies.pdf

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VSAN 6.2 Part 10 – Problematic Disk Handling

VSAN 6.2 Part 10 – Problematic Disk Handling

In this post, I want to talk about a feature called Problematic Disk Handling. Some history behind why we have such a feature can be found in this post. In VSAN 6.2/vSphere 6.0 U2, Problematic Disk Handling has been improved Continue reading → The post VSAN 6.2 Part 10 – Problematic Disk Handling appeared first on CormacHogan.com.

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#VirtualBlocks talks #VSAN and PowerCLI – Sparse Virtual Swap Files: http://vmw.re/24OKwAl

#VirtualBlocks talks #VSAN and PowerCLI -…

#VirtualBlocks talks #VSAN and PowerCLI – Sparse Virtual Swap Files: http://vmw.re/24OKwAl

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VMware Virtual SAN: The Technology And Its Future

VMware Virtual SAN: The Technology And Its Future

As discussed in earlier posts, the latest version of Virtual SAN (v.6.2) announced on February 10, 2016 is the biggest release of the product since its debut in March 2014. The list of new features is impressive and makes Virtual SAN very competitive against the most sophisticated storage platforms in the market today. Indeed, with […] The post VMware Virtual SAN: The Technology And Its Future appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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7 Reasons VMware Virtual SAN Is Radically Simple

7 Reasons VMware Virtual SAN Is Radically Simple

It is often that we hear technology solutions described as “revolutionary”, “incredible”, or “game-changing” and that list of adjectives could certainly go on. In some cases, those descriptions are fairly accurate while at other times, they tend to be a bit overstated. We here at VMware often use the term “radically simple” to describe Virtual SAN and I believe this flat out hits the nail on the head. Since the inception of Virtual SAN a couple of years ago, one of the main objectives has been to keep the management of Virtual SAN and the VMs running on Virtual SAN as simple as possible and, in my opinion, we have not only met that goal, but far exceeded it. Let’s look at seven examples.

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Adding custom VSAN BIOS splash screen to the Intel NUC

Adding custom VSAN BIOS splash screen to the…

One of the last things I wanted to look into after setting up my new VSAN 6.2 home lab on the new 6th Gen Intel NUC was to add a custom BIOS splash screen giving my system a personal touch. Updating the BIOS splash screen would require flashing the BIOS itself which gave me some concerns after hearing about the BIOS v33 issue […]

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Virtual SAN Deployments Over L2/L3 Networks

Virtual SAN Deployments Over L2/L3 Networks

A new VMware Virtual SAN networking paper is now available. This paper focuses on the physical network and vSphere related technologies that are required to deploy Virtual SAN across Layer 2 and Layer 3 topologies.

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Hybrid vs All-flash VSAN, are we really getting close? (via Yellow Bricks)

Hybrid vs All-flash VSAN, are we really getting…

For the last 12 months people have been saying that all-flash and hybrid configurations are getting really close in terms of pricing. During the many conversations I have had with customers it became clear that this is not always the case when they requested quotes from server vendors and I wondered why. I figured I would go through the exercise myself to see how close we actually are and to what we are getting close.

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies

VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency…

Virtual SAN is natively integrated with vSphere and it is configured with just a few mouse clicks. Since disks internal to the vSphere hosts are used to create a Virtual SAN datastore, there is no dependency on external shared storage. Virtual machines can be assigned specific storage policies based on the needs of the applications. These workloads benefit from dependable shared storage predictable performance and availability characteristics. The new release of Virtual SAN, version 6.2,…Read More

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VSAN 6.2 Part 9 – Replacing the witness appliance

VSAN 6.2 Part 9 – Replacing the witness appliance

There might be a reason in VSAN stretched cluster environments or in 2-node VSAN ROBO deployments to change the witness appliance. The one thing to keep in mind is that you must use a witness appliance that has the same Continue reading → The post VSAN 6.2 Part 9 – Replacing the witness appliance appeared first on CormacHogan.com.

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Quick Tip – VSAN 6.2 (vSphere 6.0 Update 2) now supports creating all-flash diskgroup using ESXCLI

Quick Tip – VSAN 6.2 (vSphere 6.0 Update 2) now…

One of my all time favorite features of VSAN is still the ability to be able to “bootstrap” a VSAN Datastore starting with just a single ESXi node. This is especially useful if you would like to bootstrap vCenter Server on top of VSAN out of the box without having to require additional VMFS/NFS storage. This bootstrap method has been […]

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Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies White Paper

Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies…

We’re happy to announce the Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies White Paper. I was fortunate to work on this along with Jeff Hunter and John Nicholson on this document. We cover some of the new additions to Virtual SAN in version 6.2 specifically around space efficiency. A couple of the new features that we The post Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies White Paper appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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Experts Weigh In on Virtual SAN 6.2 Features & Performance

Experts Weigh In on Virtual SAN 6.2 Features &…

VMware Virtual SAN is an enterprise-class, policy-driven storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure optimized for vSphere virtual machines, delivering an efficient and cost-effective operational model. But don’t take our word for it – hear it from the experts themselves.

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Evolution of HCI: Future of All Flash Virtual SAN

Evolution of HCI: Future of All Flash Virtual SAN

In his last blog post , Vijay Ramachandran described Virtual SAN’s biggest and most awaited edition till date – Virtual SAN 6.2. He also discussed the rationale behind why we invested in developing space efficiency features on All Flash only. Coincidentally, there was also a very good blog post from Howard Marks where he discussed the economics of All Flash and why he believes that All Flash is the future of storage.

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VSAN 6.2 : Sparse Swap, what is it good for?

VSAN 6.2 : Sparse Swap, what is it good for?

Advertise here with BSA I already briefly touched on Sparse Swap in my VSAN 6.2 launch article. When talking about space efficiency and VSAN 6.2 most people will immidiately bring up RAID-5/6 and/or deduplication and compression. Those of course are definitely the big ticket items for VSAN 6.2, there is no doubt. Sparse Swap however is one of those tiny […] ” VSAN 6.2 : Sparse Swap, what is it good for? ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.

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VSAN 6.2 Part 8 – Upgrading VSAN Stretched Cluster from 6.1 to 6.2

VSAN 6.2 Part 8 – Upgrading VSAN Stretched…

This is an exercise that we ran through in our lab environment, and we thought that the steps would be useful to share here. By way of introduction, our 4 node cluster is split into a 2+2+1 configuration, where there Continue reading → The post VSAN 6.2 Part 8 – Upgrading VSAN Stretched Cluster from 6.1 to 6.2 appeared first on CormacHogan.com.

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