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Big news from Pure Storage
There was lots of big news yesterday from our friends over at Pure Storage. First of all, we had an announcement about their Virtual Volume (VVol) [...]
Does enabling encryption on vSAN require on an-disk format change?
vSAN 6.6 shipped earlier this year. It comes with a new on-disk format to support, among other things, data at rest encryption (also known as DARE). This is [...]
Deploying vSAN with Photon Platform v1.2
This is a bit of a long post, but there is a lot to cover. In a previous post, I walked through the deployment of Photon Platform v1.2, which included the [...]
A closer look at Portworx
Last month I had the opportunity to attend DockerCon17. One of the break-out sessions that I attended was from a company called Portworx. Portworx provide a [...]
vSAN and Predictive DRS, Network-Aware DRS and Proactive HA
vSphere 6.5 saw the release of a number of improvements in the areas of DRS. I won't detail all of the improvements here, since my colleague Brian Graf has [...]
Erasure Coding and Quorum on vSAN
I was looking at the layout of RAID-5 object configuration the other day, and while these objects were deployed on vSAN with 4 components, something caught my [...]
Why two stretched clusters cannot cross-host each others witness appliances!
Sorry about the wordy title but this is a question that has come up a number of times. The request is that when I have two data sites and deploy two stretched [...]