Christopher Kusek, Technology Evangelist comments: Wow, we’re finally here! Version 6.2 has arrived and woot is it a hoot! (That wasn’t intended to rhyme, but welcome to the party regardless! This blog post will be filled with lots of cool things, lots of announcements, and a commentary on the ‘ONE VSAN to Rule Them All’ […]
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Why VSAN and VVOLs are Not Software Defined
Chris Evans of Architecting IT Blog comments: Every so often another attempt is made by the vendor community to put a definition to what we call “software defined storage” or SDS. The current discussion is on VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) and VVOLs, software features focused on storage within the vSphere hypervisor ecosystem. This seems like a […]
Manage your VMware Metro Storage Cluster with Tags
Gabrie van Zanten of Gabes Virtual World comments: Running a VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (VMware vMSC) makes it possible to move VMs between two geographical locations without downtime. In a Metro Storage Cluster a vSphere Cluster consists of ESXi hosts from both locations with shared storage that is stretched over these locations. Using a VMware Metro […]
Virtual Volumes – A new way of doing snapshots
Cormac Hogan of VMware Storage comments: I learnt something interesting about Virtual Volumes (VVols) last week. It relates to the way in which snapshots have been implemented in VVols. Historically, VM snapshots have left a lot to be desired. So much so, that GSS best practices for VM snapshots as per KB article 1025279 recommends […]
EMC, ScaleIO and The VMkernel
Chris Evans of Architecting IT Blog comments: There’s been a bit of conversation recently on the intention of EMC to put drivers for their ScaleIO platform into the VMware ESXi hypervisor kernel. The discussion was triggered by an article published in LeMagIT on 25 November 2014 by Christophe Bardy and subsequently picked up by The Register. It implied […]
My VSAN journey — all done!
Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization comments: Another VSAN homelab is born! After waiting some time for more SSDs, Infiniband cables and Perc H310 storage controller cards from eBay, now when all the pieces has arrived I’m able to put everything together and run my VMware VSAN cluster. I expanded my older hosts with internal storage […]
VSAN Part 2 — What do you need to get started?
Cormac Hogan comments about VMware’s new VSAN: This post contains the list of items you will need to get started with VSAN. I’ll also try to highlight some best practices when it comes to configuring VSAN. First off, lets start with the software requirements — those are the easy bits. You will need ESXi version […]
Simplivity — OmniStack & OmniCube updates
Cormac Hogan of CormacHogan.com comments: SimpliVity are another storage vendor I highly recommend that you check out at VMworld 2013. I wrote an article about them prior to VMworld 2012. Essentially, SimpliVity wanted to stop the sprawl of appliances in your data center and to that end, they ship an appliance that takes care all […]