VMware Explore US 2023 is here and as always, VMware Cloud on AWS is also getting a fair number of updates. While all updates are important, there are so many of them that I can't do them justice in a blog post. So, in this one, I will only talk about some of my picks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
There's a lot more to cover for vSphere 7 so in this post, I'll talk about the important bits with regards to vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, VMware Cloud Foundation 4 and vSAN 7. vSphere 7 with Kubernetes If you're involved with VMware products in your day job, you must have heard about Project Pacific a [...]
VMworld is VMware's main yearly event and the time when it brings out whatever is new with the products. Naturally, VMware has a few updates in store for this one too and we as bloggers were fortunate enough to get a glimpse of it before coming here. The updates fall broadly into three categories: Storage [...]
I know VSAN 6.2 is out now and may not have this issue but for the rest... Recently, I was deploying a VSAN 6.1 cluster in my lab. When I went to configure the Health Service Plugin, the "Edit settings..." button wasn't there! Hovering above the area where the button is supposed to be, did [...]