…be a stretched VSAN cluster? I can see a future where VSAN is extended into vCloud Air as a disaster recovery simplification. Noticeability missing in VSAN 6.0 is any type…

…test the 24 SN630 SSDs in a vSAN environment, we used a Supermicro SuperServer BigTwin 2029BT-HNR four-node system. The configuration per node is as follows: 2 x Intel Gold 6150…

…storage resources. The latest update moves beyond traditional vSAN enabling compute-only clusters or non-HCI clusters to remotely use storage from a vSAN cluster within a data center. This allows users…

…vSAN. Normally vSAN would only allow internal SATA/SAS/M.2/etc drives to we have to change the ESXi settings to allow USB devices to be recognized as SSDs and allow vSAN to…

VMware just launched version 6.6 of vSAN, bringing another round of new features and enhancements. With more than 7,000 customers, and growing rapidly, the sixth version of vSAN boosts performance of its all-flash configurations…

…release of VSAN 6.1, VMware’s is releasing VSAN ROBO for locations that want all the benefits of VSAN without the three node requirement. VSAN needs at least three nodes for…

…see how it’s going to be this process of adding a new host/server to our current vSAN cluster. Adding a new host to the vSAN cluster One of the distinguishing…

…vSAN 6.5. At the launch event for Optane last week, VMware presented a tease of early data showing what the P4800X can do when acting as the cache drive in vSAN….

Virtual SAN (VSAN) 5.5, VMware’s first Software Defined Data Center product, was released last month and has been very well received by enterprises looking to get more out of traditional compute servers. VSAN essentially gives users access…