by Rawlinson | Mar 16, 2014 | Cool Stuff!, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
I was recently involved in a conversations with regards to Virtual SAN and virtual machine migration capabilities. A few customers have been wondering about whether or not all of the vSphere migration operation and functions work with Virtual SAN due to the way the...
by Rawlinson | Mar 14, 2014 | Cool Stuff!, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
Virtual SAN is now available and officially supports up to 32 nodes per cluster. Configuring and managing clustered solutions comprised of 32 nodes can become operationally intensive, time consuming, and overwhelming for any environment over time. One of the key...
by Rawlinson | Mar 13, 2014 | Cool Stuff!, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
One of the most discussed topics about Virtual SAN has been around its scalable architecture design and the ability to scale up and scale out. In this article, I want to discuss and showcase the scale up capabilities of Virtual SAN. Virtual SAN’s disk support is based...
by Rawlinson | Mar 7, 2014 | Cool Stuff!, Storage, VMware
Now that VMware officially launched Virtual SAN, its time for everyone to get up to speed with the some of the latest and greatest changes with regards to the new design and sizing considerations guidance for Virtual SAN. Yesterday, we announced the official release...
by Rawlinson | Mar 4, 2014 | OpenStack, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
With the upcoming release of Virtual SAN, I want to take the opportunity to demonstrate some of the interoperability capabilities of Virtual SAN with other products and solutions. I will start the series by showcasing Virtual SAN’s interoperability with OpenStack....
by Rawlinson | Dec 2, 2013 | Storage, VMware
I will presenting at a couple of upcoming VMware User Group (VMUG) meetings this week in Florida. I’ll be delivering a presentation on VMware’s Software Defined Storage Portfolio with focus on Virtual SAN (VSAN) recommended practices, use cases, and vCloud Suite...