vSAN has come a long way since it was first introduced and has been serving millions of environments worldwide. However, since its introduction, disk technologies and the transport mechanisms that power them, have all changed dramatically in their architecture, capabilities, capacity, and speed. The availability of such devices and the need for performance for demanding [...]
Of course! The biggest news at VMware Explore this year is the announcement of vSphere 8, which is scheduled to be generally available in September. This release comes with a plethora of new features, capabilities, and even architectural changes, some of which I'll be talking about in this and other related posts. With vSphere 8, [...]
Last year, VMware announced "Project Arctic" as a technology preview, which aimed to natively integrate cloud connectivity into vSphere. The idea was to consolidate all management functionality into one cloud-based console that not only allows management of all vSphere platforms, regardless of their location but also allows add-on services to be made available to them [...]
Tech talks are so much better when vendors present to a small group of like-minded techie friends in an informal way, followed by some fun and chats afterwards. vRetreat, run by Patrick Redknap, is such an event, and why I try not to miss it. This time, we had Mark Hoffmann (Senior Product Manager - [...]
Storage has always been a difficult subject for VMware Cloud on AWS. While the default vSAN storage is highly performant and well-engineered, it is not the most cost-effective option. The only way to scale is to add or remove hosts. Doing so is seamless but it is a rigid amount without any choice available in [...]
Along with the release of vSphere 7 Update 2, also came the vSAN 7 Update 2 as well. You may have read my posts on the vSphere 7 updates but if not, you'll find it here. Update 2 is by design a major update for vSAN 7 so for the full list of updates, please [...]
You may have noticed the release of vSphere 7 Update 2. As always, there is an extensive list of updates, covering various product areas, and I am sure you'll get to read all about them in the release notes. This blog is about my picks from them that I feel need more of your attention. [...]
In my last post, I talked about What's new in vSphere 7 Update 1 when it comes to vSphere. This one covers the important bits (in my view) when it comes to vSAN. Due to the importance of vSAN for most vSphere environments, it's good to see such a number of new features coming through. [...]
Today, VMware is releasing vSphere 7 Update 1 and along with fixes and enhancements, there are some notable additions related to Tanzu. For that reason, VMware's tagline for this update is "Developer-Ready Infrastructure". In this post, I will cover the important bits that you should be paying closer attention to. vSphere with Tanzu When vSphere [...]
vSphere 7.0 has brought a fundamental change - not only in how the platform is built but also how the resources that are run on top are managed, in the form of native integration of Kubernetes. Being an integral part of the platform, the underlying networking also had to be adapted accordingly and NSX 3.0 [...]