How many hosts are needed to implement SFTT in vSAN Stretched Cluster?
Many of you who are well versed in vSAN will realize that we released a Secondary Failures To Tolerate (SFTT) feature with vSAN 6.6. This meant that not only could we tolerate failures across sites, but that we could also add another layer of redundancy to each copy of the data maintained at each of the data sites. Of course the cross site replication (now [...]
Slides from my VMworld 2017 sessions are now available
All three of my sessions from VMworld 2017 are now available on slide share. Lots of folks have been asking me for the content, so this is the easiest way of making them [...]
VMworld 2017 session on vSAN Networking Design now available
The last of my VMworld 2017 sessions is now available for viewing. This is the vSAN Networking session, which I co-presented with Andreas Scherr. Andreas is responsible for [...]
VMworld 2017 Session on vSAN Top 10 things to know now on YouTube
A quick note to let you know that a recorded version of the VMworld 2017 session "Top 10 things to know about vSAN" is now available on YouTube. I delivered this with my [...]
New vSAN Stretched Cluster Topology now supported
After publishing the vSAN Networking Guide earlier this year, Paudie O'Riordain and I received numerous questions regarding support on having different stretched clusters [...]
Project Hatchway – VMware Persistent Storage for Containers
Earlier yesterday, I had the opportunity to sit in on a VMworld 2017 session delivered by one of my colleagues, Tushar Thole. Tushar presented "Project Hatchway" to the [...]
VMworld 2017 Session on vSphere 6.5 Core Storage now on YouTube
A quick note to let you know that the session that I delivered on day 1 of VMworld 2017 is now available on YouTube. The session is entitled "A Deep Dive into vSphere 6.5 Core [...]