vSAN 7 Update 2 What so Sexy?

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There are so many blogs and articles been posted by many. You can refer to some of the official ones below.


Here I am going to list some of the great feature found in vSAN 7 U2 which will help in everyday operations or use cases.


vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Once feature which was covered in vSphere 7 U2 post, was the ability to upgrade or patch the ESXi with Suspend of memory with Quick Boot. In vSAN, this reduces resynchronization efforts

We also mentioned that more vendors hardware support for updates is now available.

With the new vLCM, you can now dictate a desired state with an image and a prescribe outcome as a desired result.


vSAN Data Persistence Platform (DPp)
In vSAN 7 U1, support for a new framework for integrating stateful aps working with Kubernetes Operators such as MINO, DATASTAX, etc. was introduced providing the vSAN Data Persistence platform.

In vSAN 7 U2, not j ust providing a easy deployment when the service is enabled, it will automatically spin up in the supervisor cluster. Also this update allows the migration from legacy vSphere Cloud Provider (VCP) to the Container Storage Interface (CSI) to use DPp.


vSAN File Services
More granular support has been added with SMB v2.1 and v3 paired with Actived Directory.  Kerberos for NFS and scaling up to 32 hosts for file services processing. Cormac wrote an article on this.

The support for 2-Node and stretched cluster setup is much welcome. Especially for remote office where a small setup is seen such services is often required. In terms of security, File Service now support encryption with Data-in-Transit.

Hope the above gives you a useful summary and discover more from the links provided.

Update 16th Mar 2021
Lastly, one last item is HCI Mesh which allows you to split Compute and storage clusters instead of having the Compute cluster to also be part of vSAN cluster. This allows more flexibility and there is no vSAN licensing requirement for Compute cluster. Check out what's new in vSAN 7 U2 on HCI Mesh here. Check out more on vSAN HCI Mesh here.

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