VSAN
4 Guidelines to Choosing a Storage Device for VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
Which drives should you choose when deploying VMware Virtual SAN? Here are 4 considerations for picking the right storage device.
April 3, 2015 • 5 min read Data
A Guide to the Role of Flash in VMware Virtual SAN Capacity Tier
VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is new approach to hypervisor-converged infrastructure that I’ve written about extensively on this blog. I want to take the opportunity to give an overview of the role and benefits of highest capacity flash when used in VSAN capacity tier and share some suggestions and best practices for implementation. VSAN Capacity Tier […]
March 24, 2015 • 7 min read Data
New Ways to Configure VMware All-Flash VSAN 6.0
There are many advantages to using SSDs for the capacity tier in VSAN, specifically with Enterprise-grade SSDs reaching 4TB and beyond and in VSAN 6.0 one will be able to configure a capacity tier using flash drives directly from vCenter web client UI. However, for those using VSAN 1.0 one needs to configure the SSD […]
February 12, 2015 • 6 min read Data
How We Achieved 2 Million Transactions With All-Flash VSAN 6.0
Unveiled at VMware Partner Exchange, Biswapati Bhattacharjee shares the first testing results of SanDisk’s new all-flash VSAN configuration, benchmarking business and ecommerce workloads.
February 3, 2015 • 4 min read Data
2M Transactions! All-Flash Virtual SAN Boosts Business Critical Applications
Just Announced: The All-Flash Virtual SAN 6 architecture is an outstanding solution that eliminates high costs, reduces complexity and gives a dramatic boost to performance.
February 2, 2015 • 3 min read Data
1200 Virtual Desktops in 3-node All-Flash Virtual SAN (VSAN)
As 2015 approaches, I wanted to conclude my last blog of this year by discussing our latest all-flash Virtual SAN (VSAN) testing. and to share some of our plans for next year for VSAN and other areas of virtualization. Before getting into the results of our latest testing, I want to point to several of […]
December 11, 2014 • 4 min read Data