VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Features Deduplication, Compression, and RAID5 or RAID6 over 10GbE

Posted by Paul Braren on Feb 10 2016 (updated on Feb 12 2016) in
  • ESXi
  • Virtualization
  • Storage
  • Back at January 2016's VTUG New England Winter Warmer 2016 in Gillette Stadium near Boston, I was walking along a hallway when I was suddenly pretty much tackled by an unusually exhuberant Peter Keilty from VMware, who I had just seen a month before at a November VMUG in Providence. What could be so exciting for me to see in this new session, that I hadn't seen already?

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    Peter Keilty and Grant Challenger.

    Well, let's just say what I did see was impressive. Grant Challenger kicked things off in his appropriate football jersey, then Peter gave us all a pretty good peek at what's coming up next in vSAN 6.2.

    I realize not everybody lives near Boston. So I'm glad Peter and Grant have shared their presentation, which I now present to you, hosted on fast global AWS CloudFront. Enjoy! Then take a moment share your thoughts by dropping a comment below. I know "S" has already shown his enthusiasm in his vSAN comments here, which started as RAID comments on a SuperServer back here.

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    Click the image to bring up the 40 page pdf.

    Peter Keilty
    Office of the CTO, Americas Field
    Staff Systems Engineer
    Storage and Availability
    VMware, Inc.
    pkeilty@vmware.com
    @keiltypeter
    livevirtually.net

    Grant Challenger
    Area Sales Manager – East
    Storage and Availability
    VMware, Inc.
    gchallenger@vmware.com

    VMware Virtual SAN Resources

    • VMware.com – Product – Virtual SAN

    vSAN Blogs

    https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/
    http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/tag/vSAN
    http://www.yellow-bricks.com/virtual-san/
    http://cormachogan.com/vsan/
    http://www.punchingclouds.com/
    http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
    http://livevirtually.net/
    http://blogs.vmware.com/storage/author/chuck_hollis/
    StorageReview.com
    VMware Virtual SAN Review: Overview and
    Configuration

    VMware Virtual SAN Review: VMmark Performance
    VMware Virtual SAN Review: Sysbench OLTP
    Performance

    VMware Virtual SAN Review: SQL Server
    Performance


    See also at TinkerTry

    VSAN-triple
    Home vSAN? These 2 extras SuperServers were borrowed, sure was fun though!

    See also

    Reminder, vSAN requires very careful enterprise grade gear for proper operations. Any long term tinkering with vSAN in your home lab could lead to premature SSD death, due to the write-heavy nature of this solution. You've been warned!

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