Browsing Posts published in Settembre, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutesOra che sono rientrato dalla trasferta per il VMworld US 2015, posso commentare l’evento e tracciarne un resoconto di massima. In primis perché mai andare al VMworld Americano dato che tra poco più di un mese vi sarà quello Europeo? Beh… semplicemente perché è quello il vero VMworld… l’edizione “nostrana” è più sottotono (benché ritengo che gli interventi siano migliori qualitativamente, anche perché sono già stati rodati)… Si paga soprattutto la vicinanza temporale con l’evento “padre” che di fatto brucia quasi tutti gli annunci (anche se quest’anno gli annunci sono stati, secondo me, minori rispetto agli […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesEVO:RAIL is scalable and modular architecture housed in a small form factor (2U/4N Form factor including compute, storage, network and management resources), with flexible hardware configuration (with 8 Global Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners), able to scale out up to 16 appliances (64 nodes). In only one year of history it has grow more and more in capabilities and also in adoption. But also in version 1.2 was still based of vSphere 5.5 and VSAN 1.0, until now!

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new Virtual SAN 6.1 has also another new features related to a specific deployment scenario: a 2-Node Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) configuration. This configuration was possible with the previous VMware product (VSA) but was not suitable with VSAN, making space for other solutions like StorMagic SvSAN or StarWind Virtual SAN.

Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Virtual SAN 6.0 (formally was v2.0) was a big improvement of the VMware’s hyperconverged storage solution with some important new features like the new filesystem (with powerful snapshot implementation), the concept of fault domain (to improve data resiliency), more scalability and the full flash option. Now VMware has announced a new release: Virtual SAN (or VSAN) 6.1, with new improvements, including enhanced usability & management, advanced troubleshooting, and several new features.

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