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Danger! Beware of potential Data Loss through Bit Rot...

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 09:53:22 +0000

Not all Hyperconverged Solutions are created equal. It's all very well for vendors to discuss data resiliency and data recovery, but when they claim to support Tier One workloads, yet are not giving real consideration and protection to customer's data, then there is a problem for the customer. One such example is VSAN. Unfortunately for customers VSAN does not have the core software-based data protection mechanisms in place to prevent data loss due to bit rotting. We all know that Data loss experience in any organization is significant, impactful and in this day in age not tolerated. In this article I intend to outline the process of bit rot/data loss and the variances of features between Nutanix and VSAN.

Horizon View 5.3 and VMware VSAN Setup Video

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:33:06 +0000

VSAN reduces CAPEX for Horizon View deployments by leveraging inexpensive server disks for shared storage, avoiding the capital expense of specialized hardware. VSAN helps to reduce OPEX by greatly simplifying, and in most cases eliminating, day-to-day storage configuration and provisioning activities, yet allowing administrators to scale Horizon View deployments on-demand by adding hosts on the fly or hot-adding disks to existing server nodes.

Why is Content-Based Read Cache (CBRC) so important for Horizon View and VSAN?

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:34:43 +0000

This article builds on top of my previous two articles about Horizon View and VMware Virtual SAN. Here are the aforementioned articles: How does VMware VSAN help Horizon View?, and How is Horizon View configured for VMware VSAN?

The CBRC (Content Based Read Cache) was introduced with vSphere 5, allowing Horizon View administrators to leverage it the feature via the Horizon View administrative console. CBRC help administrators to address performance bottlenecks and the increase in storage cost for VDI.

How is Horizon View configured for VMware VSAN?

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:14:04 +0000

In my previous article I discussed VSAN benefits for Horizon View (How does VMware VSAN help Horizon View?), including CAPEX and OPEX savings provided by the use of inexpensive server disks for shared storage and simplified day-to-day storage configuration and provisioning activities.

How does VMware VSAN help Horizon View?

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:12:36 +0000

During last VMworld US VMware unveiled a new product called VMware Virtual SAN, or VSAN. For those not yet familiar, VSAN leverages local storage from a number of vSphere hosts that are part the same cluster. A distributed datastore is then created leveraging the local storage from each host.

VMware Distributed Storage and VDI

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:03:58 +0000

In today's market we are seeing a clear change in storage architectures and the drivers for change are new technologies such as SSD/Flash and new applications, which have different requirements from the storage subsystem. Some of the storage architectures that we are seeing in the market are the traditional ones such as SAN/NAS, gateways to cloud storage, scale out storage, BLOB storage and DAS with flash drives.