VMware vSphere Storage from DataCore – DataCore SANsymphony PSP17 news

SANsymphony 10.0 PSP17 was released on 17th of January 2024. PSP17 features the following major enhancement highlights: Adaptive Data Placement (ADP): Extending SANsymphony’s intelligent data tiering capabilities with a capacity optimization tier. SANsymphony’s advanced ML algorithms intuitively identify and move rarely-accessed datasets to highly optimized storage tiers at sub-LUN-level...

vSphere 8 – VM configuration object stored on a VVOL datastore

vSphere 8 and VM configuration stored running on a datastore type VVOL has changed.Let’s call it the 255GB config object pitfall.„Starting at vSphere 8.0U1, the config vVols are now created with thin provisioned size of 255GB and formatted with VMFS-6.“Source: https://core.vmware.com/resource/whats-new-vsphere-8-core-storage#sec32279-sub1 Now, let’s figure out what this change means...

DataCore Inside

Letzte Woche war ich vom 24 bis 25 Januar in Leipzig auf der DataCore Inside. Hier hat DataCore, ein führender Anbieter für Software defined Storage, eingeladen und in spannenden Vorträgen seine Produkte vorgestellt. Über zwei Tage konnte man sich in etlichen Breakout Sessions über Produkte informieren und Demos dazu...

Tanzu Vanguard Community

The Tanzu Vanguard community is a group of experts and thought leaders in the field of modern application development. They come from a variety of backgrounds, including software development, IT operations, and business leadership. The community is focused on the use of Tanzu, a set of technologies and services...

First experience with VMware and Ansible

After I started to work with VMware, I got more and more interested in how to automate all the manual tasks. So I looked around on the internet and found two possibilities. On the one hand with Powershell and on the other hand with Ansible. Since Ansible has always...

Setting up vSphere 8

I am currently in my Ausbildung as an IT specialist for Fachinformatikerin Systemintegration. The goal should be that I further educate myself in the area of VMware. Since vSphere 8 has been released recently, we thought it would be a good exercise to install vSphere 8. We had three...