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Design a ROBO infrastructure (Part 4)

30 April 2017
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Reading Time: 14 minutesThis is the fourth part of a set of posts realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and implementation of a ROBO infrastructure. See also the original post. Design a ROBO infrastructure. Part 4: HCI solutions 2-nodes hyperconverged solution As written in the previous post, for ROBO scenario the most interesting HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) configuration is a two nodes configuration, considering that two nodes could be enough to run dozen VMs (or also more). For this reason, not all hyperconverged solutions could be suitable for this case (for example Nutanix or Simplivity need at least 3 […]

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VMware vSAN 6.6: security aspects

20 April 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new VMware Virtual SAN (or vSAN) 6.6 adds several enchaments and new features as described in the announce notes. Some interesting news are related to security aspects and how data-at-rest could be protected: one option could be new vSphere 6.5 VM encryption format but now it’s also possible use the native vSAN encryption. Duncan’s post explains the difference of those two approaches.

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VMware vSAN 6.6: resiliency aspects

19 April 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe new VMware Virtual SAN (or vSAN) 6.6 adds several enchaments and new features as described in the announce notes. Most of those aspects are related to data and cluster resiliency (as expected by a storage solution), including:

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VMware is going to acquire Wavefront

12 April 2017
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware has announced the intention to acquire Wavefront, a leading metrics monitoring service for cloud and modern application environments. In this way VMware is going to increase its Cross-Cloud management products and services including costing, discovery, monitoring, root cause analysis, and visualization.

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.6

11 April 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Virtual SAN is a Software Defined Storage solution from VMware that also fits in the hyper(visor)-converged model. Although is a separate product, the core functions to implement it are already present in the vSphere versions making really easy to deploy and enable it. Is a really fast growing product, by the end of 2016, VMware HCI solutions powered by vSAN have more than 7,000 customers (more than Nutanix and SimpliVity combined, but will be nice know how many are really in production).

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Bye bye 3rd party virtual switches in ESXi

10 April 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware has announced the discontinuation of its third party virtual switch (vSwitch) program, and plans to deprecate the VMware vSphere APIs used by third party switches in the release following vSphere 6.5 Update 1. Subsequent vSphere versions will have the third party vSwitch APIs completely removed and third party vSwitches will no longer work. In the past years, VMware has recommended the Nexus 1000V users to move into the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch to avoid future problems, now it’s clear the product version where you can go.

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Bye bye VMware VDP

6 April 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware is announcing the End of Availability (EOA) of vSphere Data Protection (VDP), the backup program integrated with vSphere suite and included with the Essential Plus license. VMware vSphere 6.5 is the last release to include vSphere Data Protection and future vSphere releases will no longer include this product. VMware will focusing its investments on vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection to further strengthen the vSphere backup partner ecosystem that provides better 3rd part native backup products. For sure it’s a great sign for the backup ecosystem.

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