Posts tagged "storage"

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VMworld 2014 US: VSAN Architecture Deep Dive #STO1279

Aug 27, 2014

Quick notes while attending VSAN deep dive by ( the architect of VSAN and ( one of the lead developers for VSAN. They went into the technical details of some of the functional components and how VSAN decides to distribute data across the cluster to meet availability and performance requirements, they showed some of the performance numbers. VSAN key benefits, radically simple, high performance,...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Content Library

Aug 27, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ Content Library is a planned new addition to vSphere 6.0 which was talked about for the first time in a session at VMworld. Content Library is a way to centrally st...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: vCenter

Aug 27, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ VMware continues to build out its hypervisor core management application vCenter with more functionality. There are no dramatic architectural changes but VMware is...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Multi-CPU Fault Tolerance

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ It's been many many years in the making but at last Fault Tolerance for Multi-Processor VMs has seen the light of day and was announced during the VMworld keynote t...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Virtual Data Center (removed from release)

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ UPDATE: 02/02/2015 Virtual Data Center and a Policy Based Management component which were both talked about at VMworld have been pulled from the final release. It s...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Virtual Volumes

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ Virtual Volumes (VVols) is one of the big new additions to vSphere 6.0. VMware has been talking about it publicly since ( and is a very significant update. VVols c...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Cross vCenter and Long Distance vMotion

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ vMotion is one of most basic yet coolest features of vSphere, People generally consider the time they saw vMotion work for the first time as their "wow" moment show...

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EVO: Rail - Integrated Hardware and Software

Aug 25, 2014

_VMware has announced it is entering the hyper-converged appliance market in conjunction with hardware partners for them to ship pre-built hardware appliances running VMware software. See my introduction, ( Each of the four EVO: RAIL nodes within a single appliance will have at a minimum the following: Each appliance is fully redundant with dual power supplies. As there are four ESXi hosts per...

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EVO: Rail - Management Re-imagined

Aug 25, 2014

_VMware has announced it is entering the hyper-converged appliance market in conjunction with hardware partners for them to ship pre-built hardware appliances running VMware software. See my introduction, ( VMware recognises that vCenter has had a rather large feature bloat problem over the years. They have introduced new components like SSO which do provide needed functionality but add to the...

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VMware Marvin comes alive as EVO:Rail, a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

Aug 25, 2014

EVO(lution) is eventually going to be a suite of products/solutions, Rail is the first announcement named for the smallest part of a data center rack, the rail, so you can infer that VMware intends to build this portfolio out to an EVO:RACK and beyond. EVO:Rail combines compute, storage and networking resources into a _h_yper-_c_onverged _i_nfrastructure _a_ppliance with the intention to dramat...

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