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) [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Comments Off on 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]