Podcasts about VSAN

Welcome to the first episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VMware Cloud Foundation 9 series! In this inaugural installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Paul Turner, Broadcom's  leader of VCF product management, to kick off an in-depth exploration of VMware Cloud Foundation 9. This series will dive deep into the platform's latest innovations, capabilities, and transformative potential for private cloud computing.    Key Highlights: The rise of private cloud and its cost-efficiency compared to public cloud services Sovereign cloud capabilities and regulatory compliance Innovations in GPU as a service Native support for VMs and Kubernetes in a single platform Advances in storage (vSAN) with enhanced performance and resilience Networking improvements with native VPC setup in vCenter VMware's partnerships with hyperscalers and 500+ cloud service providers Join us as we unpack the exciting developments in VCF 9 across multiple episodes.

Recently Broadcom announced that vSAN ESA support for SAP HANA was introduced. Erik Rieger is Broadcom's Principal SAP Global Technical Alliance Manager and Architect, and as such I invited him on the show to go over what this actually means, and why this is important for customers!For more details make sure to check:SAP note 3406060 – SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 for details.SAP HANA and VMware support pagesSAP HANA on HCI powered by vSANvSphere and SAP HANA best practicesDisclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom, or SAP.

Jump into the latest Purely Cloud Guest Series episode featuring Pure's Kyle Grossmiller in an engaging conversation with Microsoft AVS Solution expert Husam Hilal. This episode explores how Azure VMware Solution (AVS) represents one of the most significant collaborations in cloud computing, enabling organizations to seamlessly extend their VMware environments into Microsoft Azure. In this episode, dive deep to explore both the strategic vision and practical implementation challenges of this groundbreaking service. From its origins as a collaborative effort between former competitors to its current status as a critical hybrid cloud enabler, Husam guides us through the evolution of AVS with insights only an insider could provide. The conversation examines how AVS solves fundamental challenges for enterprises with significant VMware investments, allowing them to leverage Azure's global footprint without rearchitecting applications or disrupting operations. Husam shares real-world deployment scenarios and addresses one of the most common challenges customers face: vSAN storage limitations that can force over-provisioning of compute resources. He unpacks innovative solutions like Pure Storage Cloud and Cloud Block Store that disaggregate storage from compute, potentially saving organizations significant costs while optimizing resource utilization. Looking toward the horizon, Husam and Kyle provide a glimpse into upcoming AVS innovations that promise to reshape hybrid cloud strategies. Whether you're an IT decision-maker evaluating migration options, an architect designing hybrid solutions, or a VMware professional expanding your skillset, this episode offers practical advice for navigating the convergence of traditional virtualization and modern cloud platforms. Husam's unique perspective bridges technical details with business value, making complex cloud concepts accessible and actionable.

Over the last few years stretched environments have been extremely popular amongst vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation customers. The storage is the easy part, the network is usually where it gets more complex. To discuss the best practices, requirements, and caveats I invited Paudie O'Riordan to the show to share his knowledge and expertise! Explore session: VMware vSAN Stretched Clusters and VMware Cloud Foundation: What's Changed, What's New vSAN Stretched Cluster Guide vSAN Stretched PoC Guide Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.

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!

In episode 086 of the podcast, we discuss the most recent VCF 9 and vSAN 9 storage and data protection announcements with Pete Koehler. These announcements were made at VMware Explore 2024, and in my opinion, will bring both vSAN and VCF to the next level. During the discussion, we mentioned the following YouTube videos, which demonstrate the capabilities that are planned for vSAN and VCF 9: vSAN Site Take Over and Site Maintenance vSAN to vSAN Native Replication VCF Federated Storage Views And as promised links to Johan's podcast called "When shit hits the fan" or "In de aap gelogeerd", subscribe now to automatically get the upcoming episodes which will be in English! (Spotify, Apple, Website) Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.

Nutanix now supports the reuse of certain vSAN Ready Node hardware, allowing organizations to repurpose their previously-purchased hardware and transition smoothly from VMware to Nutanix. Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-expands-support-for-vsan-ready-nodesHost: Phil SellersCo-Host: Chris CalhounCo-Host: Jirah Cox

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

The recent release of vSAN 8.0 Update 3 has three areas of focus: flexible topologies, agile data protection, and enhanced management. With the many options available for vSAN, customers can choose to deploy the best suited solution for their specific needs, especially when used with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast pete and John welcome Pete Koehler to discuss the details of this latest release.  Links Mentioned What's New in vSAN 8 Update 3 Watch the What's New in vSAN 8 Update 3 video Visit the What's New with vSAN webpage Take a technical deep dive on Tech Zone 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

VMware recently released vSphere and vSAN 8.0 Update 3, and of course, we had to invite Feidhlim, Jason, and Pete back on the show to discuss what's new in these releases. There's awesome new functionality released and some great enhancements, so make sure to listen to the full episode. Key Takeaways:vSphere 8.0 update 3 introduces the vSphere Live Patch Update Path, which allows for patching ESXi hosts without evacuating VMs or entering full maintenance mode.Improvements in GPU functionality include the ability to use two DPUs in an ESXi host for availability, better support for VGPUs with different profiles and memory sizes, and simplified activation of GPU mobility with DRS.The vSphere cluster service (VCLS) has been re-architected to reduce resource consumption and improve rollback mechanisms.The 8.0 update 3 introduces stretched VVols, which customers have been asking for, and support for stretched fault tolerance.There are enhancements in VVols, including unmapped support for NVMe over fabrics.The updates in NVMe over Fabrics provide faster data migration and cloning.NFS enhancements include VMK port binding and support for NFS version 4.1.vSAN 8.0 U3 introduces new features and enhancements in flexible topologies, agile data protection, and enhanced management.The support for stretch cluster arrangement in VCF allows customers to take full advantage of ESA and improve performance, storage efficiency, and resilience.The full support of vSAN Max as principal storage within a workload domain enables customers to maintain a centralized shared storage model while leveraging the capabilities of vSAN.vSAN data protection allows users to create snapshots based on groups of VMs, set snapshotting schedules, and easily recover VMs without them being part of the inventory.Enhancements in alerting capabilities for NVMe storage devices and proactive hardware management provide better visibility and intelligence about the health and wellbeing of storage devices.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!Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.

We interview Rutger and Luis covering their trending SDDC Lab Version 6, a blog article that can be found at https://https://rutgerblom.com/2024/01/26/sddc-lab-v6-released/. The SDDC.Lab project is a series of Ansible Playbooks that preform fully automated doployments of nested VMware Software Defined Data Center Environments called pods. Each Pod consists of solutions like vSphere, VSAN, NSX, Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer, Aria Operations for Logs and VyOS Router.

In episode 073 Duncan and Pete discuss various updates and changes related to vSAN, including ReadyNode configurations, licensing, vSAN Max, capacity reporting, and compression ratios. They highlight the improvements in compression ratios with vSAN ESA, which can result in significant space efficiency gains. They also discuss the use cases for vSAN Max and vSAN HCI, as well as the flexibility in making changes to ReadyNode configurations. Overall, they emphasize the ongoing development and exciting future of vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation.TakeawaysvSAN ESA offers improved compression ratios, with an average of 1.5x and some customers achieving 1.7x or better.vSAN Max is a centralized shared storage solution for vSphere clusters, providing storage services to multiple vSphere clusters.Customers can choose between vSAN Max and vSAN HCI based on their needs, such as independent scaling of storage and compute, separate lifecycle management, extending the life of existing vSphere clusters, or specific application requirements.Changes in ReadyNode configurations for vSAN Max have reduced the minimum number of hosts required and lowered the hardware requirements, making it more accessible for smaller enterprises.Capacity reporting in vSAN has been improved with the introduction of L0FS overhead, providing more accurate information on capacity usage.vSAN ESA's improved compression ratios, combined with RAID 5 or RAID 6 erasure coding, can result in significant space efficiency gains compared to the original storage architecture.Ongoing development and updates are expected in vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation, with exciting new capabilities on the horizon.Linkshttps://core.vmware.com/blog/smaller-vsan-esa-readynodes-accommodate-vmware-vsphere-foundations-trial-capacity-capabilityhttps://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-80u2b-release-notes/index.htmlhttps://core.vmware.com/blog/improved-capacity-reporting-vmware-cloud-foundation-51-and-vsan-8-u2 https://core.vmware.com/blog/greater-flexibility-vsan-max-through-lower-hardware-and-cluster-requirements Follow 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.

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.

Welcome to episode 249 of the CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, Justin and Ryan put on their scuba suits and dive into the latest cloud news, from Google Gemini’s “woke” woes, to Azure VMware Solution innovations, and some humorous takes on Reddit and Google’s unexpected collaboration. Join the conversation on AI, storage solutions, and more this week in the Cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: Gemini Has Gone Woke? Uhhh…ok.  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We'd love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel.  General News  01:48 DigitalOcean beats expectations under the helm of new CEO Paddy Srinivasan Quick earnings chat. Digital Ocean, under their new CEO Paddy Srinivasan reported earnings of 44 centers per share, well ahead of Wall Street’s target of 37 cents per share.  Revenue growth was a little sluggish at 11% more than a year earlier, but the companies 181 million in reported sales still beat analysts expectations.  Full year revenue was 693M for the year.  We’re really glad to see the business is still going, and instead of going back on-premise, we think it’s a viable option for many workloads so don't sleep on them. 02:46  Ryan – “I like that, you know, while they are very focused on, you know, traditional compute workloads, you can still see them. Dip in their toes into managed services and, and, um, their interaction with the community and documentation of how to do things. I think it’s really impactful.” 03:34 VMware moves to quell concern over rapid series of recent license changes   As we have reported multiple times on the VMWARE shellacking they are doing to the customers, Vmware has released a blog post trying to convince you that they’re **not** screwing you.  Broadcom has realigned operations around VMWare Cloud Foundation private cloud portfolio and data center-focused VMWare Vsphere suite, and no longer sells discrete products such as vSphere hypervisor, vSAN virtual storage and NSX network storage virtualization software.   They also are eliminating perpetual licensing in favor of subscription-only pricing, with VCF users getting vSAN, NSX and the Aria Management and orchestration components bundled whether you want them or not.  Broadcom says this is about focusing on best-of-breed silos, and not disparate products without an integrated experience. 

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.

Pete Koehler is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect at VMware with a primary focus on vSAN. In addition to being our resident expert on Virtually Speaking, Pete spends his time creating technical vSAN content such as design and sizing, operations, performance, troubleshooting and integration with other products and platforms. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete (Flecha) and John welcome Pete (Koehler) to share the top 5 vSAN questions he's heard from customers about vSAN this week at VMware Explore Barcelona.

VMware unveils a technology preview of Cybersecure Storage, which will shorten recovery times by integrating VMware Ransomware Recovery's workflow with native vSAN snapshots to deliver delta-based transfer optimizations. Customers can also benefit from simplified operations with auto-replication to cloud and the capability to auto-identify best baseline snapshots to recover from. On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak with VP of Product Management Vijay Ramachandran and Sr Director of Product Management Rakesh Radhakrishnan about this tech preview of Cybersecure Storage, built on top of vSAN Express Storage Architecture.

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. 

This week at VMware Explore Pete and John spoke with Chief Information Officer, Mark Fournier about US Senate Federal Credit Union's experience using vSAN ESA. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

This week at VMware Explore, VMware announced vSAN Max, which is petabyte-scale disaggregated storage. On this episode of Virtually Speaking, Pete and John welcome Rakesh Radhakrishnan and Mark Chuang to discuss the details of this new release. 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

This is the fourth time we have Pete on the podcast, and of course, we are talking vSAN again. We invited Pete to discuss the vSAN 8.0 U2 announcement. What new features is VMware introducing in vSAN 8.0 U2, and how does it benefit our customers?Make sure to follow Pete on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vmpete) to keep up to date with his adventures, and check out the VMware website for more documents and whitepapers on vSAN 8.0 U2 / ESA / Max: Blog post: Introducing vSAN Max: https://core.vmware.com/blog/introducing-vsan-maxvSAN Max landing page: https://core.vmware.com/vsan-maxvSAN ESA landing page:  https://core.vmware.com/vsan-esaFollow 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 where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

The capabilities found in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) has really resonated with VMware customers.  Better performance, improved efficiency, simplified operations, lower total cost of ownership and its unique features makes the future clear for customers and partners. Since its debut in vSAN 8, and enhancements introduced in vSAN 8 U1, many new and existing customers have been enthusiastically moving through the process of introducing the ESA into their own environment. Read more

This is the third time we have Pete on the podcast, and of course we are talking vSAN again. We invited Pete to discuss the vSAN 8.0 U1 announcement. What are the new features that VMware is introducing in vSAN 8.0 U1, and how does it benefit our customers? Make sure to follow Pete on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vmpete) to keep up to date with his adventures, and check out the VMware website for more documents and whitepapers on vSAN 8.0 / ESA: https://core.vmware.com/vsan. Additional resources can be found here:https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2023/03/14/announcing-vsan-8-update-1/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 where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

In episode 037 we talk to Kristopher Groh, Direct Product Management at VMware responsible for various storage projects. Kris introduces us to Cloud Flex Storage and discusses the implementation in-depth. Kris also explains the different use cases for Cloud Flex Storage versus vSAN within VMware Cloud on AWS.Read more about Cloud Flex Storage below:https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2022/12/14/vmware-cloud-flex-storage-is-now-generally-available/https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2022/08/30/announcing-availability-of-vmware-cloud-flex-storage/ 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 where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

VMware was one of the great IT successes, but their journey from start-up to behemoth was fraught with decisions that led to the Broadcom acquisition. How did they get here?SHOW: 685CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSection is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There's no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!SHOW NOTES:EMC acquires VMware for $625M (2004)VMware's 1st IPO (2007)History of VMware acquisitionsDiane Greene replaced by Paul Maritz as CEO (2008)VMware revenue history (2005-2022)VMware acquires Nicira (2012)Pat Gelsinger named CEO (2012)VMware launches VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (2013)VMware launches vSAN hyper converged (2013)VMware acquires Airwatch (2014)VMware on AWS cloud service announced at AWS re:Invent (2016) HOW MUCH VMWARE COULD CONTROL MAKE NEVER TRULY BE KNOWNVMware was acquired by EMC in 2004, and operated as an “independent” entity, but how independent was it really?What might VMware have become if they weren't owned by an infrastructure company?HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONSWhat happens if VMware is allowed to be spun out from EMC? How much did it impact growth? How much did it impact innovation?What happens if Paul Maritz doesn't acquire all the companies that tried to become Microsoft? What happens if VMware didn't spinout Pivotal, and instead delivered a more vertical software stack?What happens if Pat Gelsinger doesn't buy Nicira, and instead focuses on the public cloud offerings 4 years earlier? (AWS revenues by year)Why didn't VMware define the integrated computing model (e.g. Cisco UCS)? What happens if VMware (or Pivotal) had adopted Kubernetes in 2015 instead of 2019? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

In episode 034, we have William Lam as a second-time guest discussing everything home labs! William has been writing about home labs for over a decade, probably. We could not imagine a better person to discuss this topic with. Considering at the time of publication, it is almost Christmas. We decided to ask William what his top 10  home lab gifts would be. Williams' Christmas Top 10 Wishlist Number 10: Velcro cable managementNumber 09: Smart Power meter /UPS/ APC Surge ArrestNumber 08: Kubernetes for Administrators,  VDI Design Guide Part 2,  vSAN 7.0 U3  Deep Dive Number 07: VMUG Advantage MembershipNumber 06: Memory Upgrade (64GB memory on the Intel NUC) Number 05: Thunderbolt Storage Number 04: USB/Thunderbolt Networking Number 03: 10GbE Switch (Netgear/Ubiquiti)Number 02: Intel NUC Serpent Canyon / Supermicro E302-12D Number 01: Raspberry Pi / Dell Precision 7770 Articles and solutions discussed during the show:VMware Fling: USB Network Native Driver for ESXiHow to build a customizable Raspberry Pi OS Virtual Appliance (OVA)?Stateless ESXi-Arm with Raspberry PiFollow 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 where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

Mick talks to Jon Siegel, SVP Product Marketing at Dell Technologies and Dave McGraw, Vice President from the Office of the CTO at VMware to get their perspective on VMware's announcements at VMware Explore including vSAN Express Storage Architecture, vSphere Distributed Services Engine (also known as Project Monterey) and the latest with VMware Tanzu. Jon and Dave also discuss how they're working together to engineer these new VMware technologies into Dell solutions. These 40+ projects span the Dell Technologies portfolio but they have one thing in common – they're all designed with the to simplify the multicloud operational experience with a consistent operational model.

In episode 028 we talk to Christos Karamonolis, the godfather of vSAN and VMware Fellow Engineer, about two new projects that he is involved with, VMware Data Services Manager and Project Moneta!Make sure to follow Christos on Twitter. Also, check the following resources for more details on Project Moneta and VMware Data Services Manager:VMware Explore Session:  https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library/video-landing.html?sessionid=1652129704560001cqVB&videoId=6311653142112Blog post on Moneta / DSM: https://octo.vmware.com/data-infrastructure-for-modern-applications/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 where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

This is one of those episodes where we dive right into it. Pete Koehler talks about all things vSAN 8 and primarily focuses on the new architecture introduced, which is called vSAN Express Storage Architecture, or vSAN ESA for short. If you want to know everything about vSAN ESA, then make sure to listen to every minute of this episode!Make sure to follow Pete on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vmpete) to keep up to date with his adventures, and check out the VMware website for more documents and whitepapers on vSAN 8.0 / ESA: https://core.vmware.com/vsan.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 where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

Dell Technologies is introducing new infrastructure solutions, co-engineered with VMware, that deliver greater automation and performance for organizations embracing multicloud and edge strategies. “Customers tell us they want help simplifying their multicloud and edge strategies as they look to drive more efficiency and performance from their IT,” said Jeff Boudreau, president, of Dell Technologies Infrastructure Solutions Group. “Dell Technologies and VMware have numerous joint engineering initiatives spanning core IT areas such as multicloud, edge and security to help our customers more easily manage and gain value from their data.” Business data and applications continue to grow in multicloud environments comprised of edge locations, public clouds and on-premises IT. Many organizations have already adopted a multicloud approach, and the number of applications running at the edge will grow 800% by 2024. “IDC's global research shows many organizations are struggling to balance the rapidly rising complexity and cost of data centre, edge and cloud operations with relentless business demand for better data integration, security and application performance,” notes Mary Johnston Turner, IDC research vice president, future of digital infrastructure agenda. “These organizations recognize the need for a consistent operating model tightly integrated with infrastructure platforms that support sophisticated, large scale data-driven workloads.” Dell VxRail delivers greater performance and smallest-ever systems at the edge Dell is introducing several new VxRail systems and software advancements that improve performance on-premises and at the edge including the industry's only jointly engineered HCI-based DPU solution with VMware. Improved system performance: A result of co-engineering with VMware and its Project Monterey initiative, VxRail systems support new VMware vSphere 8 software that has been rearchitected to run on DPUs. Customers can improve application and networking infrastructure performance and improve TCO by moving these services from a system's CPU to its new onboard DPU. Support demanding workloads: Select VxRail systems now support VMware's new vSAN Enterprise Storage Architecture (ESA). With up to 4x vSAN performance improvement, customers can better support demanding mission-critical applications. Smallest edge systems: VxRail rugged modular nodes deliver high performance and scalability in the system's smallest form factor to date. Modular nodes are ideal for edge use cases including healthcare, energy and utilities and digital cities because of VxRail's industry-first, on-board hardware witness, which allows for deployment in high latency, low bandwidth locations. “The increasing demand for software-defined infrastructure services for networking, storage and security places more demands on already-strained CPUs. As more distributed, resource-intensive applications are onboarded, there is a need to reimagine data centre architecture to fully support the requirements of these applications,” said Krish Prasad, senior vice president & general manager, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group, VMware. “Dell VxRail with VMware vSphere 8 will deliver a foundation for next-generation data centre architecture by running infrastructure services on the DPU. This will enable greater network and application performance and a new level of sophistication in adopting Zero Trust security strategies to protect modern enterprise workloads.” Dell APEX expands multicloud and edge support for VMware environments Dell is adding several offers to its APEX portfolio for VMware workloads that speed development of cloud-native apps and better allocate compute and storage resources for applications at the edge. APEX Cloud Services with VMware Cloud adds managed VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid services, which allows IT teams to help developers move faster by using a container-based approach to application development. With Dell-managed Tanzu servic...

Since its debut in March of 2014, VMware has a long and consistent history of turning innovative ideas into product features in vSAN.  But nothing may be bigger than what is introduced with vSAN 8.  The announcement of the VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture™ or ESA for short, represents a massive step forward in the capabilities of the solution, and the benefits to VMware customers.  This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Staff Technical Marketing Architect Pete Koehler to discuss the new ESA and other new features in vSAN 8. Read more

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we talk Data Processing Units (DPUs) with sponsor NVIDIA. The context is VMware's Project Monterey. Wes Kennedy, TME for BlueField at NVIDIA, is here to discuss how NVIDIA is partnering with VMware to enable offloads of applications such as NSX and VSAN.

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we talk Data Processing Units (DPUs) with sponsor NVIDIA. The context is VMware's Project Monterey. Wes Kennedy, TME for BlueField at NVIDIA, is here to discuss how NVIDIA is partnering with VMware to enable offloads of applications such as NSX and VSAN. The post Tech Bytes: NVIDIA BlueField And Project Monterey (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we talk Data Processing Units (DPUs) with sponsor NVIDIA. The context is VMware's Project Monterey. Wes Kennedy, TME for BlueField at NVIDIA, is here to discuss how NVIDIA is partnering with VMware to enable offloads of applications such as NSX and VSAN.

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we talk Data Processing Units (DPUs) with sponsor NVIDIA. The context is VMware's Project Monterey. Wes Kennedy, TME for BlueField at NVIDIA, is here to discuss how NVIDIA is partnering with VMware to enable offloads of applications such as NSX and VSAN. The post Tech Bytes: NVIDIA BlueField And Project Monterey (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we talk Data Processing Units (DPUs) with sponsor NVIDIA. The context is VMware's Project Monterey. Wes Kennedy, TME for BlueField at NVIDIA, is here to discuss how NVIDIA is partnering with VMware to enable offloads of applications such as NSX and VSAN. The post Tech Bytes: NVIDIA BlueField And Project Monterey (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we talk Data Processing Units (DPUs) with sponsor NVIDIA. The context is VMware's Project Monterey. Wes Kennedy, TME for BlueField at NVIDIA, is here to discuss how NVIDIA is partnering with VMware to enable offloads of applications such as NSX and VSAN.

This week we discuss the Stack Overflow Dev Survey, Securing the Supply Chain and Slack Huddles. Plus, some thoughts on coffee down under. Runner-up Titles Waiting for my wife to get up and out of the bedroom/office My wife is still asleep I feel a Liberal Arts rant coming on That's not the full stack baby How deep does this chasm go? 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The artificial intelligence community is buzzing about the just-released ML Commons MLPerf Training v2.0 results, which were announced today. NVIDIA, Intel Habana, Google, and Graphcore all submitted at least partial results, and everyone is crowing about their performance. NVIDIA is the only one to cover the field, and has a strong showing despite still relying on their A100 GPUs. Intel's Habana Gaudi 2 also shows great performance per watt in the tests they submitted, with the Graphcore Bow IPU and Google TPUv4 trailing somewhat. How do we make sense of all this ML training hardware? Head to GestaltIT.com for shownotes. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown 0:47 - AMD Extorted by Ransomware Gang 3:08 - HPE Adds GreenLake Storage Services 5:07 - Tempered Networks Picked Up By Johnson Controls 8:23 - HPE Arms ProLiant 10:58 - IBM Settles Age Discrimination Case 14:05 - VMware Adds vSphere+ and vSAN+ 20:28 - ML Commons Unveils MLPerf Training v2.0 30:08 - The Week Ahead 32:15 - Thanks for Watching Follow our hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1789

We have a very special episode today as VMware just announced vSphere+ and vSAN+, formerly known as Project Arctic. We invited Himanshu Singh to the podcast to give us a quick introduction and go over the most important aspects of this announcement. Himanshu discusses why vSphere+ is should be interesting for all customers from an operational perspective, how it brings cloud and developer services on-prem, and also how it will help with things like vCenter Server upgrades. Last but not least, there's of course also the capex/opex part of the announcement, which we are sure many folks will appreciate! Read more about vSphere+ and vSAN+ in the links below.https://vsphereplus.com/https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/06/vmware-vsphere-introducing-the-multi-cloud-workload-platform.htmlhttps://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/06/announcing-vsphereplus-and-vsanplus-to-deliver-benefits-of-cloud-to-on-premises-workloads.htmlhttps://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2022/06/28/announcing-vsan-plus/

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, CEO/Co-Host of @theCube) talks about the VMware acquisition by Broadcom and the potential future of the combined organization. SHOW: 629CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signupRevelo: Sidestep the competitive US talent market by hiring remote engineers in Latin America. Source, hire, and pay Latin American engineers in US time zones with one service. Revelo manages all the paperwork including benefits, payroll, and compliance. Hire a full-time engineer with a 14-day trial. Revelo.com/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:SiliconAngle - The Voice of Enterprise Tech (homepage)theCube - Event CoverageBroadcom will tame the VMware beast (Dave Vellante)Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61BBroadcom to transit VMware to subscription model (The Register)Brian Madden's perspective on VMware (former VMware employee)Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Lets jump right into it - did you expect VMware to get sold this quickly after finally being “free” of a parent company?Topic 2 - “Accretive acquisition bringing $8.5B of EBITDA by Year 3” - this seems to be the statement (headline) that really has people talking. What does it mean, and what does it say about the future plans that Broadcom might have for VMware?Topic 3 - Let's walk through their slide “Multiple Levers to Increase VMware's ProfitabilityTopic 4 - We all know that vSphere/ESX is the cash cow and isn't going anywhere. Beyond that, how do you potentially see other parts of the portfolio moving forward - VMware on AWS, NSX (networking), VSAN (storage), Tanzu (AppDev)?Topic 5 - Could you see companies like Cisco or HP or NetApp or Dell buying any of those businesses (especially NSX or VSAN) so that they have permanent attachment to vSphere?  Topic 6 - Do you have any experienDev InterruptedBehind every successful tech company is an engineering org. We tell their story.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Episode Notes:In this episode Matt Trifiro interviews Kit Colbert, SVP and CTO at VMware. Kit started at VMware right out of college as an intern in 2003. He is responsible for ensuring 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. Kit talks about how his role as CTO at VMware isn't typical compared to his peers, and how he's both looking out for near term deliverables and ensuring the company has a viable future. He provides insight on what he has learned and how the company has adapted and progressed over the years, discussing everything from the future of connectivity and bandwidth to blockchain and the open grid alliance.--------Key Quotes:"We're trying to balance sort of two aspects. Number one, sort of our near term deliverables to help engineering accelerate and deliver these new products in new ways for us. And number two, also chartered with ensuring that we've got a viable future. And so we're looking at the different sorts of innovation, research, and things that are going to be paying the bills in maybe five to seven years.""It's basically a question of how do we as an industry build, deliver, and operate software. This is the challenge that we've been struggling with for the last few decades. And there's the sort of traditional model, which has been that you build it, then you test it, and then you ship it out to customers and they stand it up. I think the big shift that we're seeing is that people would prefer to get things as a service.""People are now looking for everywhere. And, I think the opportunity goes back a lot to the programming model. How can we make this as simple as possible for developers? Because I think the easier that you can make it, that's where you're going to win. People love simplicity, and that's one of the beauty of cloud; there's a tremendous amount of complexity, but that complexity is largely hidden most of the time."--------Timestamps:(02:00) Getting Started in Technology(05:10) Working at VMware(07:10) What does the CTO of VMware do?(07:40) What an Organization Values(08:40) Empowering Others(10:20) Ensuring a Viable Future(11:40) Existential Trends, Staying Ahead, and History of VMware(13:10) VMware Product Focus and Security Considerations(14:20) Focus of the office of CTO(15:30) Blockchain(17:50) Trends Driving Visualization and Multi-Cloud(23:21) Edge Opportunities(25:00) Open Grid Alliance(28:30) Modern Application Design(29:50) AI/ML Use Cases(31:39) VSan and Automation(35:05) Future of 6G and Networking(38:50) Architecture Opportunities and Integration (40:30) IoT and Considerations for Computing and Security(42:15) Edge and Multi-Cloud(45:00) Data Centers and Storage Locations(47:50) Email Signatures(54:10) Notion of Inclusion--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we're here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt on TwitterFollow Kit on TwitterConnect with Kit on LinkedInKit's Feedback FormWhat Message Does Your Email Signature Send? - Article by Kit Colbertwww.CaspianStudios.com

In episode 011 we talk to Pete Koehler, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. Pete goes over the basics of vSAN and discusses several enterprise features, like stretched clustering and HCI-Mesh, in-depth.Make sure to follow Pete on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vmpete) to keep up to date with his adventures, and check out the VMware website for more documents and whitepapers on vSAN: https://core.vmware.com/vsan.You can follow us on Twitter for updates and news around upcoming episodes: https://twitter.com/UnexploredPod.Last, but not least, make sure to hit that subscribe button, rate where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Pete Keohler to unpack the new features and enhancements in vSAN 7 Update 3. Read more 

HCI Mesh is a unique, software-based approach for disaggregation of compute and storage resources. HCI Mesh brings together multiple independent vSAN clusters for a native, cross-cluster architecture that disaggregates resources and enables the utilization of stranded capacity. Simply, vSAN allows one or more vSAN clusters to remotely mount datastores from other vSAN clusters (servers) within vCenter inventory. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome David Boone to help unpack this vSAN feature. Read more 

Today's Tech Bytes welcomes sponsor VMware to talk about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are being put to use to optimize vSAN clusters as part of the vRealize AI Cloud service. Our guest is Mike Wookey, CTO and VP or Cloud Management.