…or shared storage, in this iteration we focus on spreading out four 1,500-scale databases evenly across our VSAN cluster to better illustrate the aggregate performance of the 4-node cluster.  Continuing…

The Dell EMC VxRail family of appliances are hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) underpinned by VMware vSAN. VxRail has long been the lead product when VMware talks about vSAN, as the concept…

…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…

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…

…the Node Manage view, you can perform routine maintenance and power management, and access node consoles. The Virtual Machines screen shows a summary of the VM, including its resource usage,…

…at an average latency of 9.12ms. To put some of this into perspective, VMware’s vSAN offering using two Optane SSDs and four NVMe Capacity SSDs per node measured 521K IOPS…

…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…