On September 2015 VMware released VSAN 6.1. VMware has just announced the newest version of VSAN - 6.2 (I think it will be released in March)! VMware really works hard to improve VSAN... This version provides some long-awaited features and improvements as follows: Space efficiency - deduplication (fixed block 4KB) and compression (after deduplication, only… Read More »
Now during VMworld 2015 US, VMware announced Virtual SAN 6.1 with the following most important new features: Virtual SAN Stretched Cluster - at last! With VSAN 6.1 you can build a stretched VMware cluster! The cluster can be spread across 2 sites with a witness (virtual appliance) at a 3rd site. This is really similar… Read More »
This post covers configuration of a Virtual Machine Storage Policy for Virtual SAN (VSAN). Before we define a Virtual Machine Storage Policy, we should discuss capabilities (five available) in Virtual SAN (VSAN) which are used to set the capacity, performance and availability policies on a per VM basis when that VM is deployed on the vsanDatastore.… Read More »