Plain Virtualization

There are so many blogs and articles been posted by many. You can refer to some of the official ones below. What's New in vSAN 7 U2 Duncan's What's New in vSAN 7 U2 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...

Virtual SAN (VSAN) has come a long way starting initial release in vSphere 5.5 known as VSAN 5.5 which was primary targeted at VDI workload and other not so critical workloads. Remember in Feb 2013, VMware acquire Virsto a block storage optimizing software company and liquidise in it Jan 2014.  This was nice piece of technology which took everyone by shock that it's no longer offered as a product.  How good can it be to serialize data on a block storage system when it was written in random. With VSAN 6.0 release , a part of Virsto was present in its file system and with it's native snapshot . Yes it is not using the traditional snapshot offered through vSphere which is still done on any other storage.  Now it is more applicable for Business critical apps as it also offer All-Flash VSAN model. In VSAN 6.1 release , it allows stretch VSAN cluster.  It also extend vSphere Replication with VSAN to have a RPO time of 5 minutes.  It also comes with support of ...

With much great work to further improve VMware Horizon Mirage, VMware has release version 4.2 which is mentioned here . Some of the great improvement here include Vista support for Disaster Recovery, hardware migration and Windows 7 migration from Windows Vista. Added other than bitdefender encryption, now Sophos 5.5 endpoint encryption is also supported. To add further, a web console for help desk to do troubleshooting is now found instead of relying on MMC. Though this release did not have any support for Windows 8 which means support for USMT version 5 is yet to be included.   I hope to see more improvements such as these above soon. I will do an article on Mirage 4.2 soon. See the release note here . Documentation can be located here . Download the binary here .