Podcasts about vmware vsan

Une série d'annonce pour cet épisode, c'est aujourd'hui que sont présentés les nouveaux ASA A20/30/50, jusqu'à 171% plus performant que les anciens modèles.SANtricity n'a pas été oublié avec les nouveaux EF-Series EF400C et EF600CCoté Data Management, Data Infrastructure Insights (DII, ex-CloudInsights) évolue pour une analyse encore plus poussée de vos environnements SAN, et la prise en charge de VMware VSAN.La sécurité n'est pas en reste avec une assistance gratuite au rétablissement de service suite à une attaque ransomware, la prise en charge de vos workloads SAN avec Autonomous Ransomware Protection for Block, et la simulation d'attaques ransomware dans BlueXP.Et le cloud ? ANF propose maintenant des volumes de 50GB seulement, et le catalogue CloudFormation de AWS prend en charge les fonctionnalités clé de ONTAP avec FSxN.Les annonces sur le site web de NetAppYann Bizeul (Linked-In)Guillaume Sowinski (Linked-In)Yves Weisser (Linked-In)

Managing storage costs can often feel like navigating in the dark. In this episode, we sit down with Tom Nagelmeyer, vSAN Product Marketing Engineer at Broadcom, to explore how VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSAN, and VMware vSAN Max bring transparency and control to storage expenses. Discover the latest tools and strategies to identify, measure, predict, and optimize storage costs, enabling organizations to lower expenses while maximizing efficiency. Don't miss this deep dive into the future of cost-effective storage management!

On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Product Marketing Engineer and vSAN expert Pete Koehler joins us to share the common questions he receives on VMware vSAN and storage for VMware Cloud Foundation. Links Mentioned VMware vSAN ESA Deep Dive: Your Storage Platform for VMware Cloud Foundation Playlist: VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024 The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to private and hybrid cloud. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you're new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vspeakingpodcast.com and follow on TwitterX @VirtSpeaking

In episode 070, we spoke with Patryk Wolsza about vSAN performance. Patryk wrote some great whitepapers on the topic of vSAN OSA vs ESA, vSAN on AMD vs vSAN on Intel, and vSAN with RDMA and 100GbE. In this episode, we discuss the benefits of ESA, Intel CPUs, and RDMA/100GbE.Some links to topics discussed:vSAN and RDMA/100GbEHow Server Consolidation with VMware vSAN 8 Boosts Performance by more than 7.4x!VMware vSAN and 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Outpace AMD GenoaBoost Performance and Lower Latency with VMware vSAN 8 and 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors — Solution Design BriefSystem Health Inspector ToolFollow us on X for updates and news about upcoming episodes: https://x.com/UnexploredPod.Last but not least, make sure to hit that subscribe button and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.

There are two new tools to help understand and calculate the required subscription capacity for the new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) offerings, which are licensed based on physical CPU Cores for compute and total raw physical storage (TiBs) for vSAN. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome William Lam to discuss the details of these new scripts and how demonstrates with a live demo.  Links Mentioned  WilliamLam.com VMware KB 95927 - Counting Cores for VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation and TiBs for vSAN VMware KB 96426 - License Calculator for VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation and VMware vSAN

The vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) is an optional, alternative architecture in VMware vSAN 8 that's designed to achieve all-new levels of efficiency, scalability and performance. It features a single-tier architecture optimized for high-performance NVMe-based TLC flash devices for both on-premises environments and hyperscale public clouds. Johannes Weidacher, an IT Specialist for Storage and Datacenter Virtualization is one of the many vSAN customers who recently discovered the performance, capacity and security improvements of vSAN ESA. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John speak to Johannes about his recent experience moving from vSAN OSA to ESA.

I denne episode dykker vi ned i verdenen af HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) -løsninger, og vi sætter særligt fokus på de nyeste opdateringer på VMwares vSAN-arkitektur og HPE Ready Nodes. Denne episode er relevant for folk, der er interesseret i, overvejer eller allerede arbejder med HCI-løsninger. Vi taler om opdateringer på flere forskellige aspekter af VMwares vSAN-teknologi, herunder vSAN ESA, vSAN MAX og vSAN OSA. Desuden er der en opdatering til HPE Ready Nodes til vSAN, og hvordan de kan tilpasses for at opfylde kundernes specifikke behov. Du kan også se disse YouTube-videoer, hvis du er interesseret i den del, der handler om use cases til Edge. Følgende to videoer handler om Virtual PLC – Manufacturing. https://youtu.be/NELdE6u3Mxo?si=wGzAGTejEvo_Xs4L https://youtu.be/XS0d-im-jb8?si=ufui4zHTUM59NADv

I denne episode dykker vi ned i verdenen af HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) -løsninger, og vi sætter særligt fokus på de nyeste opdateringer på VMwares vSAN-arkitektur og HPE Ready Nodes. Denne episode er relevant for folk, der er interesseret i, overvejer eller allerede arbejder med HCI-løsninger. Vi taler om opdateringer på flere forskellige aspekter af VMwares vSAN-teknologi, herunder vSAN ESA, vSAN MAX og vSAN OSA. Desuden er der en opdatering til HPE Ready Nodes til vSAN, og hvordan de kan tilpasses for at opfylde kundernes specifikke behov. Du kan også se disse YouTube-videoer, hvis du er interesseret i den del, der handler om use cases til Edge. Følgende to videoer handler om Virtual PLC – Manufacturing. https://youtu.be/NELdE6u3Mxo?si=wGzAGTejEvo_Xs4L https://youtu.be/XS0d-im-jb8?si=ufui4zHTUM59NADv

At VMware Explore in Las Vegas VMware announced a new vSAN offering called VMware vSAN Max. To discuss this announcement we invited Kalyan Krishnaswamy to the show. Kalyan is the product manager for VMware vSAN Max and has been involved with vSAN for many years.Follow us on Twitter for updates and news about upcoming episodes: https://twitter.com/UnexploredPod.Last but not least, make sure to hit that subscribe button, rate wherever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Dell Technologies' Bill Leslie, Director, Technical Marketing for an inside look at the performance of Dell's VxRail solution, including use cases, and the findings of our recent performance testing on Dell's VxRail hyper converged infrastructure (HCI). Our discussion covers: Dell's relationship with VMware and the state of the HCI business An overview of Dell's VxRail 8.0, vSAN 8.0 and new vSAN Express Storage Architecture The Futurum Group's performance testing results why those results matter in business terms as well What our performance test findings mean for use cases and the expansion for high performance workloads Take a look at our findings here. 

Diese Woche sind wir zeitlich wieder on point und nicht so Microsoft-lastig. Wir bieten euch heute einen bunten Blumenstrauß aus Nutanix AOS vs. VMware vSAN, warum ihr Managed Services machen sollte (shameless selfplug...), und warum Security-Projekte in der OT scheitern. Friedrich Liechtenstein würde sagen: Ihr seid eine sehr, sehr geile Hörerschaft! ;) Lasst uns 5 Sterne in der Podcast App eurer Wahl da, supported uns mit Spenden und folgt uns auf den sozialen Medien. Viel Spaß mit der neuen Folge!

Technology is a crucial component of operations at New Belgium Brewing, the 4th largest craft brewer in the US. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome New Belgium Brewing Head of Enterprise Security, Adam Little to discuss how they use VMware vSAN in their operations. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

VMware is announcing the upcoming release of vSAN 8 Update 2 as well as an exciting new offering, VMware vSAN MaxTM This week on The Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Pete Keohler to discuss all the details of this release. Read more

On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Pete Keohler to walk through the details of this latest release. Read more

In this podcast, I interview Ray O'Farrell, Executive Vice President and leader of the Cloud-Native Apps Business Unit at VMware. In his current role, Ray will envision and extend the company's strategy and operating model for delivering the Kubernetes platform of the future. Prior to August 2019, Ray served as executive vice president and chief technology officer, where his main focus areas were to ensure VMware's long-term technology leadership through research and innovation programs, with the primary goal of positively impacting and shaping the future of VMware, its ecosystem and its customers. Prior to his role as Chief Technology Officer, Ray co-led the Software-Defined Data Center Division comprising the vSphere, networking, management, and storage businesses and was responsible for the division's strategy, business, and product planning and engineering execution. Ray joined VMware to lead the ESX Storage team during the early development of the ESX platform. He helped build a large ecosystem of partners in storage and helped expand the portfolio, which today includes products such as VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) and VMware vSAN. During his tenure at VMware, Ray built and managed a global R&D organization and held engineering responsibilities across the entire VMware portfolio. His responsibilities spanned management of all of the components of VMware's flagship vSphere and suite products, including core compute, networking, storage, and Cloud management. O'Farrell also spearheaded the Dell Technologies IoT division. Ray has over 20 years of software engineering and product delivery experience. Before VMware, he developed and shipped development tools and operating systems for real-time, embedded, and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and Scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv Systems (United States), and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States). Ray holds a bachelor's of engineering in electronics and a master's of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland. I hope you enjoy my interview with Ray!

I recently read a blog post from a storage vendor attempting to make the case that HCI (Hyper-converged Infrastructure) is not a good fit for healthcare. They used their strategic partner's HCI solution, VMware VSAN as the example, but tried to apply their reasoning to all HCI. My first thought was to wonder what Nutanix's hundreds of happy healthcare customers would think of such an argument. I often meet with customers who make the case to ME on why Nutanix is a great fit for their life-critical applications.I'll highlight some of those reasons in this post. And because I'm familiar with the author and his background, I'll assume that he was writing about the healthcare provider market, and not payors, pharma, or some other sub-market. So, my comments will also be focused on HCI and healthcare providers.Host: Andy WhitesideCo-host: Harvey GreenCo-host: Jirah CoxGuest: Dave Weber

Sponsored By: This past week, we had a great talk with Martin Hayes (@hayes_martinf), Distinguished Member Technical Staff at Dell Technologies about running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxBlock 1000 converged infrastructure (CI). It used to be that Cloud Foundation required VMware vSAN primary storage but that changed a few years ago. . When that … Continue reading "116: GreyBeards talk VCF on VxBlock 1000 with Martin Hayes, DMTS, Dell Technologies"

Sponsored By: This past week, we had a great talk with Martin Hayes (@hayes_martinf), Distinguished Member Technical Staff at Dell Technologies about running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxBlock 1000 converged infrastructure (CI). It used to be that Cloud Foundation required VMware vSAN primary storage but that changed a few years ago. . When that … Continue reading "116: GreyBeards talk VCF on VxBlock 1000 with Martin Hayes, DMTS, Dell Technologies"

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Pete Koehler to break down the new features and capabilities available in vSAN 7 Update 2. Read more.

IT Best Practices: Intel Manufacturing factories rely on advanced technology for smooth 24/7 operation. Each factory includes two data centers with hundreds of servers to manage materials, equipment automation, process control, inventory, analytics, and more. Manufacturing IT recently built a separate and completely virtual integration environment for Intel’s Non-volatile Memory Solution Group (NSG) factory. This offered an opportunity to introduce Intel Optane SSDs as cache tier on I/O-intensive workloads to reduce the number of disk groups required. Whether running applications, websites, databases, file servers, or other services, storage performance is often the most important factor in delivering high-performing business solutions. And higher disk throughput is key to achieving performance. We targeted web, application, and database servers using common factory workloads and the results were outstanding. Testing revealed that two disk groups performed as well as three and write-intensive workloads performed even better. We compared automation system use cases involving defect analysis application servers and database servers on a virtualized platform with Intel Optane storage media against systems with NAND SSD (All-Flash) systems. With nearly 200 physical servers hosted in the integration environment, the results gave us confidence to virtualize most factory integration compute environments with servers that simulate the factory setting before applying changes in production.

IT Best Practices: Intel Manufacturing factories rely on advanced technology for smooth 24/7 operation. Each factory includes two data centers with hundreds of servers to manage materials, equipment automation, process control, inventory, analytics, and more. Manufacturing IT recently built a separate and completely virtual integration environment for Intel’s Non-volatile Memory Solution Group (NSG) factory. This […]

IT Best Practices: Intel Manufacturing factories rely on advanced technology for smooth 24/7 operation. Each factory includes two data centers with hundreds of servers to manage materials, equipment automation, process control, inventory, analytics, and more. Manufacturing IT recently built a separate and completely virtual integration environment for Intel’s Non-volatile Memory Solution Group (NSG) factory. This […]

Vi er klar med en ny Arrow Podcast, hvor Tony Franck fra Hitachi Vantara og Allan Nymann fra Arrow har haft en god snak om Hitachi Vantara's HCI-løsninger. Hitachi Vantara har et stort fokus på performance, og de har derfor bygget deres løsning op om de nyeste teknologier på markedet: VMware vSAN, NVMe diske og Intels teknologi Optane. Hitachi HCI er skræddersyet med non-blocking arkitektur, der gør, at diskene taler direkte med CPU. Hvor andre HCI-løsninger har svartider på 10-15 millisekunder, har Hitachi HCI skåret svartiderne ned til omkring 1 millisekund og med Hitachis disaggregated HCI og VMware Cloud Foundation kommer muligheden for at få svartiderne ned til mikrosekunder. Løsningen er samtidig klassificeret som en Global Appliance af VMware og det giver en samlet løsning, der gør det simpelt at implementere og administrere og på toppen et samlet support punkt hos Hitachi for både VMware og hardware. Lyt til dette afsnit af Arrow Podcast for at få det hurtige overblik over Hitachi HCI.

Vi er klar med en ny Arrow Podcast, hvor Tony Franck fra Hitachi Vantara og Allan Nymann fra Arrow har haft en god snak om Hitachi Vantara's HCI-løsninger. Hitachi Vantara har et stort fokus på performance, og de har derfor bygget deres løsning op om de nyeste teknologier på markedet: VMware vSAN, NVMe diske og Intels teknologi Optane. Hitachi HCI er skræddersyet med non-blocking arkitektur, der gør, at diskene taler direkte med CPU. Hvor andre HCI-løsninger har svartider på 10-15 millisekunder, har Hitachi HCI skåret svartiderne ned til omkring 1 millisekund og med Hitachis disaggregated HCI og VMware Cloud Foundation kommer muligheden for at få svartiderne ned til mikrosekunder. Løsningen er samtidig klassificeret som en Global Appliance af VMware og det giver en samlet løsning, der gør det simpelt at implementere og administrere og på toppen et samlet support punkt hos Hitachi for både VMware og hardware. Lyt til dette afsnit af Arrow Podcast for at få det hurtige overblik over Hitachi HCI.

Vi er klar med en ny Arrow Podcast, hvor Tony Franck fra Hitachi Vantara og Allan Nymann fra Arrow har haft en god snak om Hitachi Vantara’s HCI-løsninger. Hitachi Vantara har et stort fokus på performance, og de har derfor bygget deres løsning op om... Vi er klar med en ny Arrow Podcast, hvor Tony Franck fra Hitachi Vantara og Allan Nymann fra Arrow har haft en god snak om Hitachi Vantara’s HCI-løsninger. Hitachi Vantara har et stort fokus på performance, og de har derfor bygget deres løsning op om de nyeste teknologier på markedet: VMware vSAN, NVMe diske og Intels teknologi Optane. Hitachi HCI er skræddersyet med non-blocking arkitektur, der gør, at diskene taler direkte med CPU. Hvor andre HCI-løsninger har svartider på 10-15 millisekunder, har Hitachi HCI skåret svartiderne ned til omkring 1 millisekund og med Hitachis disaggregated HCI og VMware Cloud Foundation kommer muligheden for at få svartiderne ned til mikrosekunder. Løsningen er samtidig klassificeret som en Global Appliance af VMware og det giver en samlet løsning, der gør det simpelt at implementere og administrere og på toppen et samlet support punkt hos Hitachi for både VMware og hardware. Lyt til dette afsnit af Arrow Podcast for at få det hurtige overblik over Hitachi HCI.

What is it about HCI that enterprise IT likes so much? On this episode David Wang, HPE's director of storage marketing, drops in to talk to hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell about why HCI is compelling, and how the different flavors of HCI address a range of needs in the enterprise, whether on the edge or in the core. HPE is in an interesting place with HCI. The company has two in-house HCI solutions, dHCI and SimpliVity, and is a major mover of both Nutanix and Vmware VSAN software. How does HPE position them? And what's the right answer for your IT shop? Join us in a wide-ranging and fascinating conversation about HCI's place in the enterprise, and where HPE's dHCI and other solutions fit. A special thank you to Sonal Dave' for helping out with the logistics and, of course, David Wang for joining us! Special Guest: David Wang.

As enterprise storage moves to commodity hardware and software, has the time come for businesses to consider building their own storage systems? In this podcast, we discuss the pros and cons of packaged enterprise storage solutions and consider how the market is changing. Many modern storage solutions, from VMware vSAN to cloud storage, are based on commodity hardware. And there are many instances where a production storage environment uses self-configured software too. But we still recommend sticking with a supported storage solution. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: You Should Roll Your Own Whitebox Storage

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. Sim discusses the vSAN market, and Supermicro’s latest Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Their new solution is a culmination of and collaboration between Supermicro, Intel, […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. Sim discusses the vSAN market, and Supermicro’s latest Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Their new solution is a culmination of and collaboration between Supermicro, Intel, […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. Sim discusses the vSAN market, and Supermicro’s latest Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Their new solution is a culmination of and collaboration between Supermicro, Intel, […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. Sim discusses the vSAN market, and Supermicro’s latest Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Their new solution is a culmination of and collaboration between Supermicro, Intel, […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. Sim discusses the vSAN market, and Supermicro’s latest Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Their new solution is a culmination of and collaboration between Supermicro, Intel, […]

On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. Sim discusses the vSAN market, and Supermicro’s latest Intel® Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Their new solution is a culmination of and collaboration between Supermicro, Intel, and VMware. He is excited by the efficiency and performance of Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory, describing how it enables customers to do more with less. Sim also speaks to Supermicro’s Green Computing mission to reduce environmental cost and impact of data centers. Learn more about by visiting supermicro.com. Explore Intel Select Solutions and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions.

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Sim Upadhyayula, Senior Director of Solutions Enablement at Supermicro. Sim discusses the vSAN market, and Supermicro’s latest Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Their new solution is a culmination of and collaboration between Supermicro, Intel, […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Wendy Wu, Business Development Manager at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about QCT’s new Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. QCT has partnered with VMware since 2014 and QCT’s vSAN version 2 solution exceeds program standards. Wendy talks about that […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Wendy Wu, Business Development Manager at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about QCT’s new Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. QCT has partnered with VMware since 2014 and QCT’s vSAN version 2 solution exceeds program standards. Wendy talks about that […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Wendy Wu, Business Development Manager at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about QCT’s new Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. QCT has partnered with VMware since 2014 and QCT’s vSAN version 2 solution exceeds program standards. Wendy talks about that […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Wendy Wu, Business Development Manager at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about QCT’s new Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. QCT has partnered with VMware since 2014 and QCT’s vSAN version 2 solution exceeds program standards. Wendy talks about that […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Wendy Wu, Business Development Manager at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about QCT’s new Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. QCT has partnered with VMware since 2014 and QCT’s vSAN version 2 solution exceeds program standards. Wendy talks about that […]

Wendy Wu, Business Development Manager at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), joins Conversations in the Cloud to talk about QCT’s new Intel® Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. QCT has partnered with VMware since 2014 and QCT’s vSAN version 2 solution exceeds program standards. Wendy talks about that success and how innovations like Intel Optane® SSD and 2nd Generation Xeon® processors achieve high performance. QCT offers a wide variety of customizations that are validated for performance between Intel and VMware. They have been able to customize profile offerings for workloads and scenarios such as remote office data storage or animation use cases. QCT and Intel Select Solutions share a common value: to simplify the deployment process for customers. Pre-validated offerings are workload optimized to ensure performance, which saves time and gives confidence to users. As demands for hybrid cloud continue to climb, Wendy expects QCT will work to minimize customer effort and stay ahead on trends like HCI. To learn more about QCT’s solutions go to https://www.qct.io/ or go.qct.io/solutions/qct-premier-intel-select-solutions/. Explore Intel Select Solutions for Hybrid Cloud and other performance optimized configurations at intel.com/selectsolutions.

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: David Shyu, Solutions Product Manager at Hitachi Vantara, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Hitachi Vantara’s Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN and the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure. Hitachi Vantara’s vSAN ReadyNodes take advantage of 2nd Generation Intel Scalable processors with Intel Optane DC […]

David Shyu, Solutions Product Manager at Hitachi Vantara, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Hitachi Vantara’s Intel® Select Solutions for VMware vSAN and the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure. Hitachi Vantara’s vSAN ReadyNodes take advantage of 2nd Generation Intel Scalable processors with Intel Optane™ DC persistent memory. Their newest VMware vSAN solutions leverage Intel technologies to provide higher capacity, lower latency, and give customers more scalable options over the previous version. David has been impressed with the IOPS produced by DC persistent memory and how systems see high performance at a lower TCO. Customers can manage their storage on a unified platform server across hyperconverged infrastructures. Hitachi Vantara continues to see exciting benefits from the latest Intel technologies. Intel Select Solutions provide pre-verified solutions so customers can quickly deploy optimized solutions. David explains that Optane's increased capacity allowed Hitachi Vantara to break benchmark records. For more information visit https://www.hitachivantara.com. To learn more about Intel Select Solutions, go to: www.intel.com/selectsolutions.

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: David Shyu, Solutions Product Manager at Hitachi Vantara, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Hitachi Vantara’s Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN and the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure. Hitachi Vantara’s vSAN ReadyNodes take advantage of 2nd Generation Intel Scalable processors with Intel Optane DC […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: David Shyu, Solutions Product Manager at Hitachi Vantara, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Hitachi Vantara’s Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN and the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure. Hitachi Vantara’s vSAN ReadyNodes take advantage of 2nd Generation Intel Scalable processors with Intel Optane DC […]

theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante (@Dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu) share their analysis of spending trends for the second half of 2019 relating to HCI including VMware vSAN, Dell EMC VxRail, Nutanix, HPE SimpliVity, and Cisco Hyperflex.Originally aired 9/13/2019

In this podcast, I interview Ray O'Farrell, Executive Vice President and leader of the Cloud-Native Apps Business Unit at VMware. In his current role, Ray will envision and extend the company’s strategy and operating model for delivering the Kubernetes platform of the future. Prior to August 2019, Ray served as executive vice president and chief technology officer, where his main focus areas were to ensure VMware’s long term technology leadership through research and innovation programs, with the primary goal of positively impacting and shaping the future of VMware, its ecosystem and its customers. Prior to his role as Chief Technology Officer, Ray co-led the Software-Defined Data Center Division comprising the vSphere, networking, management and storage businesses and was responsible for the division’s strategy, business, and product planning and engineering execution. Ray joined VMware to lead the ESX Storage team during the early development of the ESX platform. He helped build a large ecosystem of partners in storage and helped expand the portfolio, which today includes products such as VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) and VMware vSAN. During his tenure at VMware, Ray built and managed a global R&D organization and held engineering responsibilities across the entire VMware portfolio. His responsibilities spanned management of all of the components of VMware’s flagship vSphere and suite products, including core compute, networking, storage, and Cloud management. O’Farrell also spearheaded the Dell Technologies IoT division. Ray has over 20 years of software engineering and product delivery experience. Before VMware, he developed and shipped development tools and operating systems for real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and Scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv Systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States). Ray holds a bachelor’s of engineering in electronics and a master’s of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland. I hope you enjoy my interview with Ray!

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: This week we welcome back Todd Christ, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Intel, to discuss Intel Select Solutions for Google Cloud’s Anthos. Google Cloud’s Anthos is a scalable hybrid cloud solution, built with VMware vSAN and powered by Intel processors, storage, and networking technologies. Hybrid cloud solutions […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: This week we welcome back Todd Christ, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Intel, to discuss Intel Select Solutions for Google Cloud’s Anthos. Google Cloud’s Anthos is a scalable hybrid cloud solution, built with VMware vSAN and powered by Intel processors, storage, and networking technologies. Hybrid cloud solutions […]

This week we welcome back Todd Christ, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Intel, to discuss Intel® Select Solutions for Google Cloud’s Anthos. Google Cloud’s Anthos is a scalable hybrid cloud solution, built with VMware vSAN and powered by Intel processors, storage, and networking technologies. Hybrid cloud solutions are increasing important to help businesses meet regulatory needs, control data placement, and incorporate existing equipment securely. Todd discusses how the new solution stems from years of engineering collaborations between Intel and Google. The result is a pre-tested solution, validated from the hardware up through the firmware stack to the vSAN software and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) On-Prem. The new Intel Select Solutions for Google Cloud’s Anthos is optimized for 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and gives customer’s flexibility wherever their cloud resides. A big goal of the hybrid model is to help customers manage data easily across on-premises and cloud environments. Todd also explains how Anthos works with existing systems, and the benefits of managing clusters across on-premises and multi-cloud environments with a single pane console view. Data continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with the majority being generated on-premise. The future of hybrid cloud will see big innovations in data placement to give users more choice and flexibility. Explore the Intel® Select Solutions for Hybrid Cloud at www.intel.com/selectsolutions. For more information on Google Cloud’s Anthos, visit https://cloud.google.com/anthos/.

On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we are joined by Tim Henning, director of architecture and engineering at SHI. SHI offers custom IT solutions and offers services including detailed assessment tools, volume licensing expertise, and simplified billing solutions. Tim talks about his role as the head of the SHI Customer Innovation Center, a facility where customers can test and evaluate the latest technology. The Innovative Center continues to grow and explore future technology disruptors that can benefit their customers. SHI will include Intel® Select Solutions in the Innovation Center. SHI recently began offering the Intel® Select Solution for VMware vSAN, a preconfigured solution that is performance optimized for high-capacity memory workloads. This solution is built on the 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, utilizing Intel® Optane™ SSDs and Intel® Networking technology. Moving from traditional on-prem datacenter to private and hybrid cloud, it’s about getting the most money from your investment and best application performance. Intel Xeon Scalable processors help SHI build high performance solutions that are both on-prem and connecting to the cloud. Tim notes that vSAN is moving away from traditional storage architecture, bringing the technology into the new hyper converged world where servers and storage are all one device and is managed as such. This helps with ease of implementation and ease of management with the ability to expand for future growth. The future will see more businesses exploring new and expanded cloud configuration and SHI wants to help their customers determine the most efficient and performance optimized implementation. Learn more about the Innovation Center at www.SHI.com/CIC and read about SHI’s Intel Select Solutions at www.SHI.com/IntelSelectSolutions.

Jim Sangster, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Supermicro, joins Intel’s Conversations in the Cloud to talk about their broad product line of servers and storage platforms and how their offering of Intel Select Solutions simplifies the process of implementing and deploying solutions that are workload optimized for their customers. Supermicro always strives to be first to market with new technologies. Jim talks about how Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory will be a game changer--how it provides significantly more memory capabilities, it’s persistent and less expensive than DRAM. Jim covers two new Intel Select Solutions they will be offering soon: VMware vSAN and SAP HANA—both built on Intel 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. He also touches on their AI product line—what’s available and the infinite possibilities using AI. For more information about Supermicro, their extensive product line and the Intel Select Solutions they offer, go to: www.supermicro.com To learn more about Intel Select Solutions, go to: intel.com/selectsolutions

Join Conversations in the Cloud for this special edition with VMware’s Pratap Subrahmanyam, a Fellow at VMware since 2013, and Jake Smith, Intel’s Director of Data Center Technologies Marketing to hear how VMware and Intel have worked together since 2006 to innovate private and hybrid cloud solutions. Pratap joined VMware in 2000 as a member of the technical staff (MTS)and has been a key player in their virtual machine (VM) monitor group, contributing to the design of MMU virtualization, paravirtual interfaces design principles, and, more recently, symmetric multiprocessor fault tolerance for virtual machines. In this podcast, Pratap discusses the emergence of virtualization technology, the importance of VM density, VMware’s commitment to continually updating vSphere with the latest Intel Architecture innovations, and how VMware continues to meet the challenges of managing the Edge. Always building on their core value: providing enterprises with the capability to run a large number of virtual machines on a single node. He goes on to discuss the deep collaboration between VMware and Intel and how they continue to work together to tackle complex technology problems and come up with innovative solutions. In the past 10 years, they have worked together to optimize VMware software on various Intel Architecture features, including, most recently, Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, resulting in a revolutionary technology that enables virtual machines to be more efficient and able to run bigger programs on a single node. He discusses how VMware and Intel continue to engage with the Open Source community to drive standards and optimize current and future technologies. Pratap also talks about how increased core density and memory utilization are going to transform virtualization from the edge to the cloud. This means that businesses will be able to run more VM’s with larger CPU’s that use larger amounts of memory—all on one node. This is enormously efficient. To learn more about Intel® Select Solutions for VMware vSAN, a performance optimized solution that reduces complexity, research, and time required to evaluate and implement a ReadyNode solution, go to: intel.com/selectsolutions For more information about Intel’s relationship with VMware, go to: www.intel.com/vmware/ and https://www.vmware.com/partners/strategic-technology-partners/intel.html

The amount of data that enterprises need to manage is increasing massively every year and it needs to be moved, stored and managed in more effective ways. John Majeski, General Manager of Software Solutions at Lenovo, joins Intel’s Conversations in the Cloud to talk about how Lenovo’s broad portfolio of Intel Select Solutions meets the everyday challenges of managing IT infrastructure and how their solutions are built to align with key workloads--analytics, hybrid cloud, network transformation, HPC and AI. John discusses the value of Lenovo’s select solutions—that they are fast and easy to deploy, workload optimized, and deliver an out of the box solution that is ready to go, ready to scale and provides quick time to live. In addition, these solutions use the ThinkSystem architecture, which is the foundation of Lenovo’s innovative server, storage and networking platforms. John also talks about the new solutions they are building now that will take advantage of Intel’s 2nd generation Xeon Scalable processors: SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, and Red Hat OpenShift Containers. And how these solutions will provide the ultimate in workload performance, deploy easily and scale perfectly. In the coming months they will be adding more solutions that incorporate the latest Intel technology: VMware vSAN, NFVI, Blockchain: Hyperledger Fabric and Azure Stack. For more information about the solutions that Lenovo offers, go to: www.lenovo.com. For more information about Intel Select Solutions go to: www.intel.com/selectsolutions

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we welcome Matt Halcomb, Lead Architect for WWT’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC). Matt provides an overview of WWT’s ATC, a collaborative ecosystem of virtual labs that helps their customers validate and deploy innovative technology products and integrated architectural solutions. […]

On this week’s Conversations in the Cloud, we welcome Matt Halcomb, Lead Architect for WWT’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC). Matt provides an overview of WWT’s ATC, a collaborative ecosystem of virtual labs that helps their customers validate and deploy innovative technology products and integrated architectural solutions. Matt talks about their new Intel® Select Solution: VMware vSAN 6.7, a hyper-converged solution that offers dramatically enhanced performance and can reduce time to market. Matt is excited about incorporating the latest Intel technologies, including Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors into the ATC. For more information about the work of WWT and the ATC, visit www.wwt.com.

DataStax and VMWare have announced a brand new collaboration at VMWorld Barcelona, November 5-8.  Listen to this podcast to find out how DataStax and VMWare delivers a seamless experience to their customers running DataStax Enterprise and VMWare vSAN

Pure's VP of Technology Alliances Vaughn Stewart stops by the Pure Report to provide his impressions of a very successful Pure Storage presence at VMWorld before we navigate a discussion of the challenges and tradeoffs with hybrid cloud adoption and data management. Vaughn provides his take on deployment considerations for Pure VVols and vSAN spanning mission critical applications, consolidation, edge, and public cloud deployments.

VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 makes it even easier to adopt HCI and build a Digital Foundation. Key areas where vSAN 6.7 U1 provides additional benefits include the simplification of day one and two operations, lowering the total cost of ownership with more efficient infrastructure, and even more rapid support and resolution with ReadyCare. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Pete Koehler to help us walk through the new features in this release. read more

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Tony Harvey, Senior Product Manager from Lenovo joins Conversations in the Cloud this week to discuss Lenovo’s Intel Select Solution for VMware vSAN. Intel Select Solutions provide pre-verified solutions that allow enterprise users to quickly deploy optimized solutions. Lenovo vSAN ReadyNodes with Intel Optane technology provide […]

Tony Harvey, Senior Product Manager from Lenovo joins Conversations in the Cloud this week to discuss Lenovo’s Intel® Select Solution for VMware vSAN. Intel Select Solutions provide pre-verified solutions that allow enterprise users to quickly deploy optimized solutions. Lenovo vSAN ReadyNodes with Intel® Optane™ technology provide a strong combination of hardware and software for increased reliability and flexibility. Users are able to handle multiple workloads on the same hyperconverged infrastructure, achieving strong performance benefits. For more information, follow Tony on Twitter https://twitter.com/tonyknowspower, and learn about Lenovo products at www.lenovo.com and Intel Select Solutions at www.intel.com/selectsolutions.

Jase McCarty joins us to discuss what's new with vSAN 6.7. Contact Jase with any questions or feedback at www.twitter.com/jasemccarty vsan assessment https://www.vmware.com/products/hyper-converged-infrastructure/assessment.html storage hub https://storagehub.vmware.com/ documentation portal https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSAN/index.html HOLs https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsan-18-hol

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Wendy Wu, Business Development Lead for VMware Solutions at QCT, joins Intel Conversations in the Cloud to talk about Quanta’s Intel Select Solution: QxStack VMware Edition-vSAN ReadyNode Series. Quanta is working with Intel on Intel Select Solutions to assist partners and customers in accelerating data center […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Wendy Wu, Business Development Lead for VMware Solutions at QCT, joins Intel Conversations in the Cloud to talk about Quanta’s Intel Select Solution: QxStack VMware Edition-vSAN ReadyNode Series. Quanta is working with Intel on Intel Select Solutions to assist partners and customers in accelerating data center […]

Wendy Wu, Business Development Lead for VMware Solutions at QCT, joins Intel Conversations in the Cloud to talk about Quanta’s Intel Select Solution: QxStack VMware Edition-vSAN ReadyNode Series. Quanta is working with Intel on Intel Select Solutions to assist partners and customers in accelerating data center transformation. Wendy talks about some of the key features and benefits of QCT’s Intel Select Solution, which includes simplifying modernization, strengthening reliability, accelerating time to value, and ensuring performance in business-critical scenarios. To learn more about Quanta’s solutions go to http://go.qct.io/solutions/ or follow Quanta on Twitter at https://twitter.com/QuantaQCT.

In episode #48, David chats with VMware vExpert Jase McCarty of VMware about VMware vSAN. You'll learn what's made it so popular, some of the coolest use cases for vSAN, and cool new features of vSAN. Join us on this episode of vChat! Links from the show- VMware vSAN Homepage Jase McCarty on Twitter vSAN […]

In episode #48, David chats with VMware vExpert Jase McCarty of VMware about VMware vSAN. You'll learn what's made it so popular, some of the coolest use cases for vSAN, and cool new features of vSAN. Join us on this episode of vChat! Links from the show- VMware vSAN Homepage Jase McCarty on Twitter vSAN […]

As data volumes increase faster than before, storage is critical to success. But the cost and inflexibility of a traditional solution can put a stop on progress. Arrow sits down with Liam Mattock from the VMware team to discuss how VMware vSAN you can offer a market-leading solution that will save money, simplify operations, and increase agility. Hosts: David Fearne (@davidfearne) Rich Holmes (@_Rich_Holmes) Guests: Liam Mattock, VMware SDS/HCI Business Specialist Paul Vaughan, Workforce Transformation Lead – Arrow UK & EMEA Learn more and speak to the Arrow VMware team here: https://www.arrowecs.co.uk/campaigns/vmware-enablement/ Sign up to hear the latest from the Arrow Bandwidth team: https://mailchi.mp/65bf436f292b/arrow-bandwidth-edit Join in the conversation by using #ArrowBandwidth.

vSAN is the new offering from VMware that helps companies reduce costs, provide flexibility, and increase the speed of deploying architecture in the SDS space.  Listen in as WWT experts Brent Collins and James Weiser talk about the tradeoffs between server SAN and SDS, the benefits that vSAN offers, what organizational needs that vSAN addresses and how it relates to VxRail.

This week on the podcast, we brought in the technical director for ONTAP Select, Peter Skovrup to discuss the latest improvements in ONTAP Select, including the ability to use ONTAP Select on VMware vSAN platforms!

In episode one of the Define Tomorrow, Enterprise Technology Podcast, host Barry Coombs is joined by colleagues David Wynn and Ben Evans to discuss "Your data centre, the cloud and much more" Topics discussed include  The Cloud, Adoption, IaaS, DRaaS and SaaS, considerations when choosing cloud based applications and more.  Refreshing your infrastructure, why now might be the right time to plan your infrastructure refresh, considerations around a traditional virtual infrastructure against the latest trend of hyper-converged solutions, an overview of the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC). Data Protection, considerations around how to prepare a data protection strategy, 3-2-1 Backup strategies and how to avoid your backups being part of a ransonware attack. Specific Technologies Discussed Include Dell 14th Generation Servers, VMware VSAN, NSX and vSphere and Veeam Backup and Recovery.  If you have questions, thoughts on future topics you would like to hear or if you would like to join the Define Tomorrow team for a future podcast please email hello@definetomorrow.co.uk

Bigger and better than ever!! That’s the only way to describe the Dell Technologies & Dell EMC presence at VMworld 2017!   I sat down with Dell EMC Social Media Guru Greg McCarthy (@GMcCarthy24) to get the details, and wow are there details!!! Dell Technologies will feature one of the largest LED walls ever seen on the Trade Show Floor.  It might seem like Magic, but it takes more than Magic and Wizards to make Digital Transformation happen. Hear from our customers that have started their journey, check out the sound studio, watch the Dell Canvas demo, participate in a Server Craft contest and Alienware VR experience.   Assemble your team and don’t miss #TheGreatXscape, returning from Dell EMC World with amazing daily prizes. Become an “HCI Hero” in the HCI Zone – Can you unlock Captain vSAN? Find Dell EMC in the IoT section of the VMvillage. Breakouts?   How about 25 Dell Technologies Breakout Sessions! Including the annual Chad Sakac (@Sakacc) “State of the Union” – Wednesday 8:30-9:30!!! – Don’t miss it. #v0dgeball is back – for the 9th consecutive year. Take some frustration out on your partners and competitors while helping the Wounded Warrior Project - register your team today. For details on both VMworld US and EMEA visit http://dellemcevents.com/ Some of the other breakout sessions include: SQL Server Transformation Survey Results: Virtualization and IT Agility (VIRT1822QU), Sunday, Aug 27 (4:00pm - 4:30pm) Ask the Experts - Titans of Tech (PBO1281PU), Monday, Aug 28 (2:30pm - 3:30pm) VxRack SDDC Deep Dive: Inside the VxRack SDDC powered by VMware Cloud Foundation (PBO1064BU), Tuesday, Aug 29 (4:00pm - 5:00pm)  Modern Data Center Transformation: Dell IT Case Study (PBO1964BU), Thursday, Aug 31 (12:00pm - 1:00pm) State of the Union: Everything Multi-Cloud, Converged, Hyper-Converged and More! (PBO3334BUS), Wednesday, Aug 30 (8:30am - 9:30am) Deliver Real Business Results Through IT Modernization (STO3333BUS), Monday, Aug 28 (11:30am - 12:30pm) Workforce Transformation: Balancing Tomorrow’s Trends With Today’s Needs (UEM3332PUS), Tuesday, Aug 29 (2:00pm - 3:00pm) Modernizing IT with Server-Centric Architecture Powered by VMware vSAN and VxRail Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance (STO1742BU), Thursday, Aug 31 (12:00pm - 1:00pm) Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way! (VIRT1374BU), Tuesday, Aug 29 (4:00pm - 5:00pm) Harnessing the Power of Data in a Virtual World (LDT2800PU), Wednesday, Aug 30 (9:30am - 10:30am) Multisite Networking and Security with Cross-VC NSX: Part 2 (NET1191BU), Thursday, Aug 31 (12:00pm - 1:00pm) Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Alone Does Not Constitute a Private Cloud (PBO2872BU), Thursday, Aug 31 (10:30am - 11:30am) Enterprise-Grade Data Protection for VMware vSAN with EMC Recoverpoint for VMs (STO3068BU), Tuesday, Aug 29 (1:00pm - 2:00pm) The Software-Defined Storage Revolution Is Here: Discover Your Options (STO1216BU) Implementing Horizon 7 and Horizon Cloud on VxRail (ADV1589BU) “Dell EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to Dell EMC The Source Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or Google Play and visit the official blog at thesourceblog.emc.com EMC: The Source Podcast is hosted by Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini)

One of the most distinguishing features of VMware vSAN is the availability of stretched cluster deployment. Stretched clusters allow vSAN customers to configure two geographically located sites, while synchronously replicating data between the two sites. This provides high availability and protection against a single site failure. Not a new concept with traditional storage.... or is it? This week Jase McCarty and Niels Hagoort join us to discuss how vSAN Stretched Cluster differentiates from your father's stretched cluster solutions. Show Related Links StorageHub vSAN Stretched Cluster Guide Designing a vSAN Stretched Cluster nielshagoort.com Jase McCarty’s Blog Catch Jase in the following VMworld sessions STO1179BU Understanding the Availability Features of vSAN [PAR4366BU How to Build A Software Defined DR Practice with vSAN and SRM](PAR4366BU How to Build A Software Defined DR Practice with vSAN and SRM) STO1960BU vSphere Encryption for Virtual Machines and vSAN Encryption Deep Dive STO1119GU Automating vSAN Deployments at Any Scale STO1118BU Successful vSAN Stretched Clusters STO1994BU Successful vSAN for Remote Offices and Branch Offices Catch Niels in the following VMworld sessions SER1872BU vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive: Part 2 VMTN6722U Hackathon Event: 15 teams hack on ideas! Catch Pete and John in the following VMworld sessions STO2446BU Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive * STO3276GU vSAN Networking and Design Best Practices STO2047BU What’s New in vSAN 6.6: Technical Deep Dive STO2095BU vSAN ReadyNode and Build Your Own Hardware Guidance PAR4398BCU VMware Technical Solutions Professional – Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (VTSP-HCI, formerly VTSP-SDS) PAR4367BU What’s New in vSAN 6.6 – A Deep Dive STO1926BU vSAN 6.6: A Day in the Life of an I/O

One of the key reasons Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) powered by VMware vSAN is so successful with customers is that it gives them the choice of a wide range of supported hardware platforms and choice of the latest technologies—both of which do not simply happen by chance. This week we spoke with two key members of the vSAN ReadyLabs team, Sr Product Manager Biswa Bhattacharjee and Engineering Director for vSAN, Kathryn Vandiver. Introduction to VMware vSAN ReadyLabs vSAN ReadyLabs engineering is responsible for ensuring that the ReadyNode hardware meets the demands of vSAN without compromising data availability, data integrity and product performance; that vSAN algorithms leverage the latest technological advancements in the hardware space; that development efforts go hand in hand in joint planning with all major OEM partners; and finally, that the vSAN engineering team leverages cross-OEM’s relationships to drive the resolution of hardware related issues while building future ReadyNode roadmaps for vSAN. Every ReadyNode is unique based on the combination of firmware, driver, and devices. The vSAN ReadyLabs team partners with OEM vendors to outline the latest hardware trends and roadmaps. Together we do risk assessment, create tests, debug issues, perform root cause corrective action of certification failures, and guide development of vSAN capabilities accordingly. Once a ReadyNode is through this exhaustive process and fully certified, it is ready for mission-critical use by customers and chances of hitting potential issues have been minimized. This allows customers to purchase and deploy a vSAN ReadyNode with confidence knowing that it has gone through the certification process of vSAN ReadyLabs and that they can call VMware support should they face any issues with a certified system. Show Related Links A look into vSAN ReadyLabs vSAN ReadyNode What you can (and cannot) change in a vSAN ReadyNode vSAN ReadyNode sizer Intel Purley Platform Day 0 readiness for vSAN Catch Kathryn’s VMworld session STO2705BU Redefine vSAN Deployments with Next Generation Intel® Xeon® processor, Intel® Optane™ and Intel® 3D NAND SSDs Catch Pete and John in the following VMworld sessions STO2446BU Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive STO3276GU vSAN Networking and Design Best Practices STO2047BU What’s New in vSAN 6.6: Technical Deep Dive STO2095BU vSAN ReadyNode and Build Your Own Hardware Guidance PAR4398BCU VMware Technical Solutions Professional – Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (VTSP-HCI, formerly VTSP-SDS) PAR4367BU What’s New in vSAN 6.6 – A Deep Dive STO1926BU vSAN 6.6: A Day in the Life of an I/O The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week [Pete Flecha](https://twi...

Richard Brunner, Principal Engineer and VP of Server Platform Technology at VMware, joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and how VMware is collaborating with Intel to deliver new data center solutions, based on the new processor capabilities. Richard discusses how they have been working closely with Intel to ensure that VMware can immediately take advantage of Intel® Select Solutions. Richard mentions that VMware is excited about taking advantage of Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD), which will improve manageability and serviceability for NVMe devices. Intel VMD will be supported on vSAN as well as vSphere, with Intel® Optane™ SSDs. To learn more go to www.vmware.com , or follow VMware on Twitter at https://twitter.com/VMware. To learn more about Hybrid Cloud visit www.intel.com/Cloud

In the world of HCI vSAN helped redefine the possible in the primary storage space. Now Cohesity is looking to bring these same principles and advantages to the secondary storage space. Secondary data consumes about 80% of enterprise storage capacity and imposes a huge burden on enterprise IT budgets. Cohesity calls this the Storage Iceberg. This week we bring in Cohesity CTO and old friend Rawlinson Rivera to walk us the details of Cohesity 4.0 and how they have radically simplified secondary storage management. Rawlinson Rivera is the Global Field Chief Technology Officer at Cohesity, Inc. He is well known as an industry thought leader on cloud enterprise architectures and hyper-converged infrastructures. Follow Rawlinson on twitter @PunchingClouds. Show Related Links Simplifying Data Protection for vSAN with Cohesity What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6 Cohesity PunchingClouds The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.

Last week VMware announced the launch of vSAN 6.6. Even more so than previous releases, this is a feature-packed release with advanced enterprise features that make vSAN faster, more cost effective and more secure than ever before. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast we bring in Peter Koehler for Part 2 of our vSAN 6.6 coverage and walk us through some of the details of this feature packed release. Peter Koehler is a Sr Technical Marketing Manager at VMware in the Storage and Availability Business Unit. He is an IT industry veteran in the design, implementation, and operation of Data Centers. Through years of hands-on experience in Data Center operations, along with consultative efforts with organizations large and small, Pete takes pride in helping others find pragmatic approaches to the Data Center, with an emphasis on data driven decision making, and operational simplicity. Pete is a frequent blogger on Virtual Blocks and his personal blog VMPete. He also contributes a ton of technical content on StorageHub.vmware.com. Follow Pete on twitter @vmpete. Show Related Links What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6 vSAN Product Page How to bulk create VMkernel Ports for vMotion and vSAN in vSAN 6.6 Management Pack for vSAN Goodbye Multicast StorageHub The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.

Today VMware announced the launch of vSAN 6.6. Even more so than previous releases, this is a feature-packed release with advanced enterprise features that make vSAN faster, more cost effective and more secure than ever before. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast we bring in Jase McCarty to walk us through some of the details of the feature packed release. Jase is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect in the VMware Storage and Availability Business Unit focussing on Virtual SAN. He is an Architect/Engineer/Manager/Evangelist with experience across several verticals. In my experience, you would have a hard time finding a more passionate IT professional in this industry than Jase. When he’s not designing, automating or teaching, you’ll probably find him behind the wheel of a Jeep. Follow Jase on twitter @JaseMcCarty. Show Related Links What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6 vSAN Product Page How to bulk create VMkernel Ports for vMotion and vSAN in vSAN 6.6 Management Pack for vSAN Goodbye Multicast StorageHub The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.

Jase McCarty discuss vSAN sizing and design considerations - Traditional storage solutions (2:10) - VMware vSAN storage (2:45) - vSAN objects and components (4:25) - vSAN vs traditional storage (6:30) - Next gen hardware (8:00) - Boot devices (9:50) - Storage controllers (11:20) - Controller pass-through (HBA mode) (15:00) - Hybrid vs All-Flash Architecture (16:43) - Hybrid flash sizing (30:20) - All-Flash sizing (31:15) - Caching guidelines (32:00) - HDD support (33:12) - Disk groups (34:50) - Compute (37:10) - Network myths (41:25) - vSAN and networking (46:27) - vSAN Network Troubleshooting, & Hardware Monitoring (50:51)

VMware vSAN 6.5 is the latest release of the market-leading, enterprise-class storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). vSAN 6.5 builds on the existing features introduced in 6.2 by enhancing automation, further reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), and setting the stage for next-generation cloud native applications. This week we bring in VMware Staff Technical Marketing Architect Jase McCarty to walk us through whats new in vSAN 6.5 Jase is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect in the VMware Storage and Availability Business Unit focussing on Virtual SAN. He is an Architect/Engineer/Manager/Evangelist with experience across several verticals. In my experience, you would have a hard time finding a more passionate IT professional in this industry than Jase. When he’s not designing, automating or teaching, you’ll probably find him behind the wheel of a Jeep. Follow Jase on twitter @JaseMcCarty. Show Related Links storagehub.vmware.com Whats new in vSAN 6.5 vSAN 6.5 Technical Overview vSAN 6.5 Licensing Guide Subscribe to vSAN Updates Blog Series: vSAN Witness Appliance in vCloud Air Jase on GitHub The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.

VMworld 2016 EMEA was packed with announcements around cross-cloud architecture with new releases of vSphere, vSAN, vRealize, and PowerCLI to name a few. This week we bring in VMware's Frank Denneman to help us recap the announcements and share some insight around VMware cloud and AWS. Frank Denneman is a Senior Staff Architect at VMware focussing on VMware Cloud on AWS. Frank is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX29), previous member of the VCDX panel and co-author of the best selling vSphere Clustering Deepdive book series. He regularly speaks at VMworld, VMUGs and other industry events. His articles can be found on frankdenneman.nl and networkcomputing.com. You can follow Frank on twitter @FrankDenneman. Show Related Links VMworld EMEA Press Kit VMworld 2016 Europe – On Site Recap! View and download the VMware Workspace ONE infographic Frank’s Blog VMware Cloud on AWS beta 3 Key Reasons Customers Move to Virtual Volumes What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.5 Whats New in Virtual Volumes 2.0 The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we bring in Rubrik Technical Evangelist Chris Wahl to walk us through the interoperability Between Rubrik CDM and VMware vSAN. The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.