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 Bellevue, WA
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New Post: Why vSAN ESA Only Supports NVMe Solid State Storage Devices blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Why vSAN ESA Only Supports NVMe Solid State Storage Devices

Why can't vSAN ESA use spinning disks? Read on to learn why!

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New Post: 25Gb Networking vs 100Gb Networking with VMware vSAN blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

25Gb Networking vs 100Gb Networking with VMware vSAN

Over the past four years, the VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) has demonstrated extraordinary performance capabilities for our customers. But, as noted in a series of blog posts, a...

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New Post: Refreshing an Existing vSAN Cluster with New Servers blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Refreshing an Existing vSAN Cluster with New Servers

Refreshing hardware is an inevitable task of lifecycle management in a data center. Existing vSAN clusters may have servers that are nearing the end of life by the manufacturer, or simply may no...

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We've recently made servers used with vSphere to be repurposed for use with vSAN much easier and more flexible. Product Management values your feedback on how we can improve this further. Just 30 seconds of your time will help! forms.gle/Z911Qz4y9uZASXFM8

Customer Survey: Repurposing ESX certified servers for vSAN

Context: A vast majority of the X86 servers certified for ESX & deployed in our customer environments today are automatically certified for vSAN, with that in mind, our goal is to: Better understand...

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New Post: Expand Shared VMDKs with Clustered Applications in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1 blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Expand Shared VMDKs with Clustered Applications in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1

While VMware vSphere and vSAN provide a common and consistent way of delivering high availability of your applications and data through virtualization, it is not uncommon to see customers using...

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New Post: VMware vSAN Protection and Recovery Enhancements for VCF 9.1 blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

VMware vSAN Protection and Recovery Enhancements for VCF 9.1

With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, we are introducing significant enhancements to vSAN Protection and Recovery (formerly known as vSAN Data Protection). These updates focus on...

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New Post: Native S3 Compatible Object Storage in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1 blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Native S3 Compatible Object Storage in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1

One of the inherent advantages that vSAN has over traditional storage is that it is part of the hypervisor. Having a fully integrated distributed storage solution into the hypervisor has allowed...

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New Post: Greater Flexibility and Security with VMware vSAN Storage Clusters in VCF 9.1 blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Greater Flexibility and Security with VMware vSAN Storage Clusters in VCF 9.1

For the past several years, mounting the remote datastore of a vSAN cluster has grown into an important capability for Administrators. Initially it was used to borrow storage resources between vSAN...

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New Post: Simplifying Storage with the New Effective Capacity View in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1 blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Simplifying Storage with the New Effective Capacity View in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1

In vSAN for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, we’ve taken an entirely new approach to capacity management that dramatically simplifies how capacity is presented to administrators. What does this...

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New Post: Auto-RAID in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1 - Comprehensive System-Managed Data Resilience blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Auto-RAID in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1 - Comprehensive System-Managed Data Resilience

With every new release comes new features and enhancements. Some capabilities and their benefits are obvious, but target specific challenges and situations. Other enhancements seem subtle and perhaps...

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New Post: Cost-Efficient vSAN ReadyNodes Certified for Cyber Recovery Deployments blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Cost-Efficient VMware vSAN ReadyNodes Certified for Cyber Recovery Deployments

Building infrastructure that can accommodate cyber recovery scenarios has become a requirement for many organizations. While VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance brings you comprehensive cyber recovery...

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New Post: More Capacity with vSAN Compression and Deduplication in VCF 9.1 blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

More Capacity with VMware vSAN Compression and Global Deduplication in VCF 9.1

Driving down the cost of storage is the motivation behind our ongoing work to improve efficiency in vSAN. When you can store more data on the same physical hardware through software enhancements,...

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New Post: blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

What to Look for in Network Switches for VMware vSAN

Since the recent series of blog posts on VMware vSAN networking came out earlier this year, one of the more common questions received has been “What should I use as a Top of Rack (ToR) network switch...

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New Post: Erasure Codes in VMware vSAN versus Storage Arrays blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Erasure Codes in VMware vSAN versus Storage Arrays

Data availability is a core competency of enterprise storage systems. For decades, these systems have attempted to deliver high levels of data availability while ensuring that performance and space...

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We've debuted all new vSAN ReadyNodes with MUCH lower hardware requirements! Learn the reason behind these changes, and how vSAN can be your storage solution for every VCF environment. Take a look at my new post at: blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Driving Down Storage Costs with Lower Hardware Requirements for vSAN

It is no secret to our customers and the industry that vSAN ESA powered storage is exceeding expectations. Whether it be the world-class performance that can beat traditional storage arrays, space...

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New Post: vSAN Data Protection in VCF - The Solution You Already Own blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

vSAN Data Protection in VMware Cloud Foundation – The Solution You Already Own

With a flurry of announcements and new capabilities offered in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, it is sometimes easy to overlook relatively new features hidden in plain sight. Protecting data in a...

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New Post: Application versus Infrastructure-Level High Availability with vSAN in VMware Cloud Foundation blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Application Versus Infrastructure-Level High Availability with vSAN in VMware Cloud Foundation

Maintaining availability of data and the applications that produce or consume that data might be the most important responsibility of data center administrators. Capabilities like high performance or...

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New Post: Looking at how vSAN global deduplication in VCF 9.0 drives down costs and improves efficiency as it scales blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Save Costs and Scale Efficiently with vSAN Deduplication in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

The introduction of global deduplication in vSAN for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 ushers in a new era for space efficiency without compromise in vSAN. The use of sophisticated space efficiency...

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New Post: Holistic Views for vSAN Clusters using VCF Operations blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Holistic Views for vSAN Clusters using VCF Operations

The monitoring and analysis of a complex data center can be much easier with the right tools. The right tool for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is VCF Operations. It gathers the extraordinary amount...

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New Post: Stretched Topologies using vSAN Storage Clusters in VCF 9.0. The better way to create a metro storage cluster. blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…

Stretched Topologies using vSAN Storage Clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

vSAN stretched clusters have had a long history of success with our customers. The distributed architecture of vSAN allows for stretched clusters to simply be a variation of a single-site vSAN...

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