Tag : VSAN
Written by Christopher Lewis on June 6, 2018 .
I’m extremely humbled to make the cut for this 2018 intake of the vExpert vSAN program. I’m in the company of some titans of the community!
Congrats to everyone who made it!
See the full announcement here .
That’s 3 out of 3 sub-designations to the vExpert program! Now I just need to somehow keep them all!
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 5, 2018 .
The following post is a part of my unofficial study guide for the VMware Specialist: vSAN 2017 Digital Badge. The full study guide can be found here .
Objective 2.2 - Describe vSAN Requirements
The requirements for VMware vSAN are split into multiple categories:
- Hardware
- Cluster
- Software
- Networking
- Licensing
Hardware Requirements
One of the most important requirements in VMware vSAN is that all hardware components (i.e. cache devices, capacity devices, drivers, and firmware versions) in VMware vSAN must be certified for VMware vSAN AND listed in the vSAN section of the VMware Compatibility Guide .
Written by Christopher Lewis on March 26, 2018 .
Last week I had the pleasure to present to the guys at the London VMUG for the first time. Due to work and family commitments I only managed to get the presentation finished (literally) 1 minute before I took to the stage.
The session went well and evoked a lot of discussion which was great. But as there was so much content and discussion we managed to finish 15 minutes late… ops! No-one seemed to mind though!
Written by Christopher Lewis on March 8, 2018 .
Today was a big day for VMware and VMware Cloud Services with their global Cloud Briefing. The briefing concentrated around their two mantra’s: Any Application, Any Cloud, Any Device and Consistent Infrastructure, Consistent Operations. Both of which resonate with what I am seeing customers are looking for.
The Highlights
During the briefing there were multiple announcements were made and demo’s given, including:
VMware Cloud on AWS
- General Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in **EU West (London) **- Frankfurt coming soon!
- Introducing High Availability using VMware Stretched Clusters across AWS Availability Zones (Tech Preview) #MindBlown
- VMConAWS now supports native **vSAN Deduplication and Compression (DD&C) **for space efficiency.
- Support for AWS Cloud Formation on VMConAWS.
VMware Cloud Management Services
- Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCE) - Now enhanced to work OOTB with VMConAWS so workloads from an on-premises vSphere can be moved directly into the vSphere based-cloud.
- HCE Enterprise for moving on-premises workloads to/from cloud or to other on-premises vSphere Cloud.
- HCE Cloud for moving VMs between VMConAWS, IBM Cloud and OVH.
- VMware Cost Insight - Enhancements to support VMConAWS to allow companies to understand the relative cost of migrating to the cloud.
- VMware Cost Insight now integrates with VMware Network Insight to enable accurate identification of Network Ingress costs.
- VMware Log Intelligence a new VMware Cloud Service
- Use Machine Learning to analyse cloud based logs.
- Wavefront enhanced with 45+ OOTB integrations to Cloud Native Apps (including Cassandra, MongoDB, etc).
- Introducing Wavefront for vROPs so you can get a full Application view across the hybrid cloud.
Partner Program Enhancements
- Solution Provider and Cloud Provider MSP models will be expanded to include VMConAWS.
- Introducing the VMware Cloud on AWS Competency for VMware Partners
Other noteworthy mentions
- Fujitsu have become a Global Systems Integration provider.
- The ability to use Site Recovery Manager 8 to 1-click recover from On Premises into VMConAWS.
Final Thoughts
If you have 50 minutes then I can think of worse ways to spend that time, check it out at https://cloud.vmware.com/cloudbriefing .
AWS Cloud Cost Insight Log Intelligence VMConAWS VMware VMware Cloud Services VMware vSAN VSAN Wavefront
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 9, 2017 .
The following post is a part of my unofficial study guide for the VMware Specialist: vSAN Digital Badge. The full study guide can be found here .
Objective 2.1 - Provide a high-level description of vSAN
VMware vSAN™ aggregates local or direct-attached data storage devices to create a single storage pool shared across all hosts in the vSAN cluster. vSAN eliminates the need for external shared storage, and simplifies storage configuration and virtual machine provisioning.
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 4, 2017 .
In my constant strive to learn new technologies I have decided to create an unofficial study guide containing my notes for the VMware Specialist: vSAN Digital Badge exam.
The Study Guide can be found here .
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- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 2: Creating a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Operations
- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 1: Understanding Pricing Cards in VMware Aria
- Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 5
- Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 4