In this iteration of Gestalt Networking News:
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable talks to networking professionals on the challenges of career management
– Rich Stroffolino looks at VMware NSX
– Phil Gervasi breaks down intent-based networks
Plus, a walkthrough on setting up a CCIE lab!
VSAN
OMG OMG VMware Announces VSAN 6.2! ONE VSAN to Rule Them All! (Well, Kind of)
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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tips for a successful Virtual SAN (VSAN) Proof Of Concept (POC)
Cormac Hogan comments on his blog: Pretty soon I’ll be heading out on the road to talk at various VMUGs about our first 6 months with VSAN, VMware’s Virtual SAN product. Regular readers will need no introduction to VSAN, and as was mentioned at VMworld this year, we’re gearing up for our next major release. With […]
VSAN Is No Better Than a HW Array
Nigel Poulton of Technical Deep Dive comments: The way I see it, the VSA approach offers more choice, more competition, and is ideologically superior. I’m a huge believer that competition drives innovation, as well as value for customers. Not only are there a ton of VSA products to choose from, but VSAs commoditize the hypervisor. […]
VSAN, VSA or Dedicated Array?
Chris Evans of Architecting IT comments: The discussion (although I haven’t listened to the podcast) revolves around VSA (a virtual storage appliance) that can run in a VM versus technology such as VMware’s Virtual SAN (VSAN), which runs in vSphere ESXi but is more tightly integrated with the hypervisor. As Nigel points out, a VSA […]
Atlantis Updates ILIO for VMware VSAN
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse writes: The Atlantis ILIO in-memory storage management, with its ability to aggregate disparate storage back-ends, provides a very interesting technical marriage of underlying storage architectures. VSAN already has an enticing VDI use-case, but with the added acceleration promised by the Atlantis ILIO offering, Feature lists like more capacity, accelerated performance, and […]
Could VSAN replace VSA?
Andrea Mauro of the vInfrastructure Blog comments: VMware vSphere Storage Appliance was a software-based shared storage solution that enables high availability and automation in vSphere without shared storage hardware (for more information see this post). VMware has announced the End of Availability of all vSphere Storage Appliance versions, effective April 1, 2014. After this date […]
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 […]