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Reading Time: 12 minutesThis is the last 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 5: Data protection solutions Business continuity aspects In previous posts we have already discuss about several business continuity aspects in ROBO scenarios. For example, a reasonable availability level could be between 99% and 99,99%, but there are some workloads that may require higher level (or other that are not critical at all). But availability could be achieved by a good infrastructure design and […]

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 […]

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.

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:

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.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Virtual SAN è una soluzione di Software Defined Storage sviluppata da VMware che rientra nel modello delle soluzioni storage iper-convergenti. Benché sia venduto come prodotto separato (almeno per la licenza), in realtà è parte integrante di ESXi (a partire dalla versione 5.5) rendendo veramente semplice l’implementazione di questa soluzione. Sicuramente è un prodotto in forte crescita, visto che VMware dichiara, alla fine del 2016, di avere più di 7000 clienti (che dovrebbero essere più di quelli di Nutanix e SimpliVity messi insieme, ma questa è un’interpretazione forviante, se non si qualifica e quantifica sia […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware ha annunciato il termine del supporto agli switch virtuali di di terze parti, avviato fin dalla versione 4.0 di vSphere, ma mai largamente adottato (se non per alcuni casi di utilizzo del Nexus 1000v). Le VMware vSphere APIs usate dagli switch virtuali di terze parti funzioneranno solo fino alla versione 6.5 Update 1 di VMware vSphere. Dopo non saranno più utilizzabili ed i virtual switch di terze parti non potranno più funzionare. In realtà è già da tempo che VMware ha avvisato i propri clienti di migrare da switch virtuali di terze parti ai […]

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