VMware vSAN 8 can lower HCI TCO by up to 40% through a variety of new capabilities, and this is achieved in no small part by increasing usable storage capacity by up to 70%.These improvements are delivered through a new single tier architecture, RAID-6 Efficiency with RAID-1 performance, improved compression, and compute and performance optimization.
In this paper, VMware seeks to show how vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture can deliver lower storage TCO in several common deployment types, focusing primarily on capital cost differences between the previous generation of HCI – the original storage architecture, or OSA – and current generation. However, vSAN 8 can also deliver significant cost savings as compared to traditional external storage for both CAPEX and OPEX; we provide a high-level summary in this paper, but it is not the focus.
Wednesday, May 17. 2023
New Technical White Paper - Lower Infrastructure Costs with VMware vSAN 8 and vSAN Express Storage Architecture
Thursday, April 27. 2023
New Book - VMware vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture Deep Dive
VMware’s vSAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms, and is the market leader in the hyper-converged space.
Along the way, the world of IT has rapidly changed, not just from a software point of view, but also from a hardware perspective. With vSAN 8.0 VMware brought a new architecture to market called vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA).
This architecture is highly optimized for today's world of data center resources, be it CPU, memory, networking, or NVMe based flash storage.
The authors of the vSAN Deep Dive have thoroughly updated their definitive guide to this transformative technology. Writing for vSphere administrators, architects, and consultants, Cormac Hogan, Duncan Epping , and Pete Koehler explain what vSAN ESA is, why the architecture has changed, what it now offers, and how to gain maximum value from it.
The book offers expert insight into preparation, installation, configuration, policies, provisioning, clusters, architecture, and more. You’ll also find practical guidance for using all data services, stretched clusters, two-node configurations, and cloud-native storage services.
Saturday, April 22. 2023
vSphere 8 Update 1 What's New?
Learn about the exciting new features and enhancements that vSphere 8 Update 1 brings to improve operational efficiency, elevate security and supercharge workloads. For more, see https://core.vmware.com
Friday, April 21. 2023
VMware Labs has released a new Fling - Power Actions
Power Actions is a remote plug-in that enables you to run PowerCLI scripts from the vSphere Client, and implement custom actions on the vSphere inventory objects.
Power Actions integrates the PowerCLI in the vSphere client to provide automation capabilities for the standard vSphere management client. Power Actions is a remote plug-in that enables you to leverage the PowerCLI capabilities from the vSphere Client.
For example, as an administrator, you can define a new action for a virtual machine object by writing a PowerCLI script that accepts a virtual machine as a parameter and saving it into a script/content library.
You can then share it with other users within your company who can execute the script as-is, without requiring PowerShell knowledge. Power Actions is available for download as a virtual appliance from the VMware Flings website and can be installed through the vSphere client plug-in installer.
New Release – Power Actions 1.0 by Kamen Nikolov
Sunday, April 9. 2023
VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing April 2023
The VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing is a quarterly online series designed to help organizations succeed with their multi-cloud strategies. This session—Navigate Economic Headwinds with a Cloud-Smart Approach—explores how IT organizations can use cloud services to help their companies not only endure global macroeconomic challenges but emerge from this turbulent economic environment in an even stronger position.
Through thought-leadership discussions and product demonstrations, you’ll learn how to optimize spend across your private and public clouds, and to bolster resiliency in the face of increasing cyberthreats. Speakers include VMware CEO Raghu Ragharam and other VMware business and technical leaders, including Vittorio Viarengo, Purnima Padmanabhan, Chris McCain, John McLoughlin, TJ March, Brandon Gordon, and Michael McLaughlin.
Thursday, March 30. 2023
Free e-book - The Legacy Trap
Most organizations have hit a legacy wall. They’re now unable to change how their core business works because their IT systems are too old and unchangeable.
This ebook will show you how to apply the business-driven methodology, that many organizations have used to escape the legacy trap, as well as:
- How to recognize your business is being held back by technical debt
- How business outcomes drive successful modernization outcomes
- How to build and execute on a modernization strategy
- Some common missteps with traditional approaches to modernization