I haven’t done one of these VMware Update release posts in a while… Having attended the #vExpert pre-brief a couple weeks back I thought there was enough relevant goodness to share. It’s been such an interesting time in our industry over the past 12-18 months and this vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 Update 2 release […] Read More
VMware still represents a strong focus for the foundation of our core platform supportability. VMware workloads are still easily the most protected workloads by Veeam Backup & Replication. In addition to that, we have also always been aligned with VMware vSAN, having offered deep backup awareness since the release of Backup & Replication 9.5. We […] Read More
A few weeks ago I wrote about using iSCSI as a backup repository target. While still running this POC in my environment I came across an error in the vSAN Health Checker stating the vSAN iSCSI target service was in a Failed state. Drilling down into the vSAN Health check tree I could see a […] Read More
VMware has announced the general availability of vSAN 6.7. As vSAN continues to grow, VMware are very buoyant about how it’s performing in the market. With some 10,000 customers at a run rate of over 600 million they claim to lead the HyperConverged market with a 32% market share. From my point of view it’s […] Read More
Probably one of the least talked about features of vSAN is it’s ability to serve out iSCSI volumes. The feature was released with vSAN 6.5 and was primarily focused on physical workloads and is easily configurable via the vSphere Web Client. iSCSI targets on vSAN are managed the same as any other vSAN objects using […] Read More
Runecast has released version 1.7 of their Analyzer today and it has added support for VMware vSAN. By using a number of resources within VMware’s knowledge base Runecast offers a platform that looks at best practices, log information and security hardening guides to monitor your vSphere infrastructure which in turn brings to your attention issues […] Read More
Last February when VMware released VSAN 6.2 I stated that “Things had gotten Interesting” with regards to the 6.2 release of vSAN finally marking it’s arrival as a serious player in the Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) market. vSAN was ready to be taken very seriously by VMware’s competitors. Fast forward fourteen months and apart from the fact […] Read More
This week the VMware vExpert team officially lifted the lid on two new subprograms that focus on NSX and VSAN. The announcements signal a positive move for the vExpert program that had come under some criticism over the past two or so years around the fact that the program had lost some of it’s initial […] Read More
There is no doubt that new pricing introduced to vCAN Service Providers announced just after VSAN 6.2 was released meant that Service Providers looking at VSAN for their IaaS or MSP offerings that had previously written it off due to price, could once again consider it as a viable and price competitive option. As of writing this […] Read More
[UPDATE] This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201608001. For more information, see VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201608001 (2145663). Last week VMware released an important KB based around an issue with VSAN 6.2 where some VMs residing on existing Hybrid VSAN datastores may exhibit reduced disk IO performance after an upgrade. In a nutshell […] Read More