Posts tagged "vsan"

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: The Future of Software-Defined Storage – What does it look like in 3 years time? - CTO6453

Oct 28, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Richard McDougall, a Principal Engineer at VMware led this presentation peeking into the future. This session was about the futures and trends for storage hardware and next-gen distributed services. shared NVMe/PCIe rack scale, flash densities and if magnetic storage still has a place. He built up the picture showing...

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UKVMUG: The unofficial lowdown on everything announced at VMworld

Nov 18, 2014

I did a whirlwind tour of everything that was announced at VMworld and believe me, there was a huge amount. OK, so no major release which is the norm (but plenty of teasers) but enough other things going on in the VMware space to fill more than a UKVMUG! I know, I've done the research! Even though I was at VMworld US, so much was going on that I didn't appreciate all the new shiny things being...

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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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