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...

There are multiple What's update and overview when vSphere 7.0 Update 2 was released on 9th Jan 2021. I am not here to list down those however, you can check it out below. VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2 Release Notes vSphere 7 Update 2 Part 2  (updated 18 Mar) What I like to pinpoint out here is what I find will be useful for an architect choosing the right solution for the right use case and be aware of what is useful to help customers in running it after deployed. I will break this down into three portions in the area of vSphere with Tanzu, AI/ML Platform and vSphere improvement. vSphere with Tanzu As you know vSphere with Tanzu or TKG-s has been introduce when vSphere 7.0 was released. With update 2, it now able to leverage on NSX Advanced Load Balancer (previously known as AVI), an enterprise grade Load Balancer for Supervisor Cluster, Guest cluster (TKG) and Kubernetes Services of Type LoadBalancer deployed in TKG clusters. Check out this articl...

Not going in-depth of new features but some overview so that everyone gets a quick glimpse and here is the link to VMware Blogs . Will update this article (if any) with links when it becomes available. vSphere 7.0 Overview . vCenter Server Simplified SSO Topology vCenter Server upgrade for customers with external PSC will enjoy the consolidated topology through this upgrade. embedded PSC will be the only topology moving forward. External PSC topology will be deprecated. vCenter Server Profiles ( link ) Just like how Host Profiles works. You can now compare and export the settings in JSON format as a backup or apply them to a new vCenter via REST API vCenter Multi-Homing ( link ) up to 4 vNIC where vNIC 1 is reserved for vCHA Maximum limit increased refer to  configmax.vmware.com Content Library There is a new view which you can enable. To help in managing templates, there is Check In/Out function to control versioning and revert to the previous version C...

With the release of VMware vSAN 7.0, a few new features are introduced. Some of which are release together with vSphere 7.0. I will list all of them and refer to vSphere 7.0 if there are already mentioned. vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) The new and shining armor will likely eventually replaced the vSphere Update Manager. This can update beyond just VMware software but include drivers and firmware of the Servers where vSAN sits on. At a start, the below servers are supported: Dell 14G servers Dell MX series HPE 10G servers HPE Synergy vLCM will validated the firmware as per VMware HCL. Native File Services vSAN will provide support NFS v3 and v4. Use case ideal for Cloud Native Applications, use of Block and File storage which previous for file would need to cater to another File Storage solution, and lastly maximize the use of spare capacity. Then main attraction here is the vLCM which will handle all the upgrade and drivers and firmware together where no HCI...