As Red October came to a close…at a time when US Tech stocks were taking their biggest battering in a long time the news came out over the weekend that IBM had acquired RedHat for 34 billion dollars! This seems to have taken the tech world by surprise…the all-cash deal represents a massive 63% premium […] Read More
VMware on AWS: vCloud Director and What Needs to be Done to Empower the vCAN
Last week VMware and Amazon Web Services officially announced their new joint venture whereby VMware technology will be available to run as a service on AWS in the form of bare-bones hardware with vCenter, ESXi, NSX and VSAN as the core VMware technology components. This isn’t some magic whereby ESXi is nested or emulated upon the […] Read More
VSAN 6.2: Reminder About Important Fix
[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
VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash – Part 3
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it seems like All Flash instances are becoming more the norm and for those that have already deployed VSAN in a Hybrid configuration the temptation to upgrade […] Read More
VSAN Upgrading From 6.1 To 6.2 Hybrid To All Flash – Part 2
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it seems like All Flash instances are becoming more the norm and for those that have already deployed VSAN in a Hybrid configuration the temptation to upgrade […] Read More
VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash – Part 1
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and depending on what version you where running you might not have been able to take advantage of them all right away. Across all versions, Software Checksum was added with Advanced and Enterprise versions getting VSANs implementation of Erasure Coding (RAID 5/6) with Deduplication and Compression available for the […] Read More