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...

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...

Consideration on vCLS VMs placement – from a redundant and stretched storage perspective

As we already know the VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) Recommended Practices, we need to consider the vCLS VMs as well. The vCLS VM is a system component and there is a default datastore selection logic.https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-6C11D7F9-4E92-4EA8-AA63-AABAD4B299E7.htmlhttps://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-96BD6016-4BE7-4B1C-8269-568D1555B08C.htmlA vSphere admin would like to place important system components for different and...

VMware vSphere HA – vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) mit DataCore SANsymphony

In diesem Beitrag wird auf Basis der VMware Dokumentation zu vMSC die Konfiguration mit DataCore SANsymphony beschrieben. VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) Recommended Practices:https://core.vmware.com/resource/vmware-vsphere-metro-storage-cluster-recommended-practices Allgemein basiert eine Hochverfügbarkeit auf Redundanzen der beteiligten Ebenen. Die unterste logische Ebene ist der Speicher. Bei VMware wird in diesem Kontext der Speicher...