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vSAN 8 – What’s New

Graham
vSAN was introduced in 2014, around 8 years ago. We've seen impressive features introduced to the product over the years from All-Flash, Deduplication, Encryption, File Services and enhancements in how vSAN deals with failures and maintenance mode. Since 2014 IT has evolved rapidly. No longer do we tend to run...
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How can VMware vSAN benefit your business?

Graham
VMware's vSAN solution was first launched back in March 2014 as VMware Virtual SAN 5.5. Now, more than 7 years later, vSAN is a stable platform with a complete set of enterprise-ready features. Furthermore, VMware's vSAN is consistently voted a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for HCI. That's all...
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VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 1 – All the new features

Graham
vSAN & Tanzu Improvements With vSAN 7.0 Update 1,  it will be possible to extend TKG Guest cluster volumes. Supervisor and Guest Kubernetes clusters will benefit from the new Volume Health functionality. Should a persistent volume go inaccessible, the new Volume Health feature will be able to expose this to...
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VMware vSphere – Space Reduction Techniques

Graham
It doesn't matter if we run vSphere in a home lab, for an SMB or a large enterprise, costs are always a factor into any data center solution. One of the biggest costs for us is storage, we need storage to run our workloads but did you know there are...
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How to provide feedback directly to VMware 1-on-1

Graham
Being able to provide feedback to hardware and software vendors is challenging. Most companies will allow you to send in your suggestions or product feedback via an online form or ticket which can work out okay. However, there is nothing better than being able to talk to someone at the...
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vSAN features by version & date

Graham
It's sometimes quite difficult to find out when a particular feature was released, or which product version is was fist available in. I've encountered this a few times recently and I have to go through all the release notes to get my answers. While doing this I put together this...
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Win an Amazon Echo with VMware HOL & VMTN

Graham
For those who know me, you will know that I do some of the user moderation for the official VMware VMTN forums here: https://communities.vmware.com This month I was asked if I would be interested in moderating a new forum, the vSAN 6.6 Challenge Lab https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/challenge-lab/vsan/overview So what is this all about? The...
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vSAN vs Traditional Storage Array

Graham
I've been putting notes together for a while with regards to vSAN and how it differs from Traditional Storage Arrays. Naturally, the choice between the two depends on your requirements but it's becoming obvious that the use cases for vSAN are growing on every release. Here are my quick overview...
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