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Many readers may have read this blog article on Native Object Storage from my good pal, Pete Koehler. In that post, which was published back in May of this year and coincided with the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1 release, Pete talked about a tech preview of Native Object Storage. Well, with the release of VCF 9.1.1, the tech preview has now begun. Although the tech preview of Native Object Storage is not open to everybody, we will be working with a select set of customers and gathering critical feedback. Our objective is to have a robust Native Object…

Over the past four years, the VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) has demonstrated extraordinary performance capabilities for our customers. But, as noted in a series of blog posts, a distributed storage system like vSAN relies not just on the hardware of the hosts, but the network fabric that connects them. The post: “What to … Continued

Editorial note: This blog was originally published on January 15, 2025 and has been updated to reflect VCF 9.1 updates. Are you planning on deploying or have you already stood up your VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud using VMware vSAN? If you have deployed or are thinking of deploying your VCF environment using vSAN, … Continued

I recently started rolling out the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 Express Patch 1 (9.1.0.0100) into my lab environment, and everything had been going quite smoothly. After successfully up…

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 was just announced, and that means a lot of new functionality has been released. Some of the features you already knew about, others may come as a surprise. I know Pete Koehler has a whole series he is going to release, so I am just going to introduce a couple of […]

The blog outlines deploying the vSphere Supervisor on a vSAN Stretched Cluster, essential for maintaining high availability and disaster recovery of Kubernetes workloads. It details prerequisites, …

AvSAN stretched clusteris a deployment model where a single vSAN cluster is extended acrosstwo geographically separated data centers, with a third site hosting theWitness Appliance. This architecture

Storage Policy–Based Management (SPBM)is the backbone of how VMware vSAN delivers predictable, workload‑aligned outcomes. Instead of carving LUNs or managing fixed RAID groups the old-fashioned way,po

Recently, I came across an issue in a vSphere cluster at a customer. Some vSAN disks were absent. This blog post will show you how I solved it.

Over the last couple of months, various new vSAN features were announced. Two of those features are around the Stretched Cluster configuration, and have probably been the number 1 feature request for a few years. Now that we have Site Takeover and Site Maintenance functionality available, I am starting to get some questions about the […]

Maintaining availability of data and the applications that produce or consume that data might be the most important responsibility of data center administrators. Capabilities like high performance or special data services mean very little if the applications and the data they produce or consume is not readily available. Ensuring availability is a complex topic, as … Continued

I just re-deployed my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0.1 lab setup this evening, and after configuring configuring VCF Networking with VPC, I proceeded with vSphere Supervisor enablement using VPC…

The monitoring and analysis of a complex data center can be much easier with the right tools. The right tool for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is VCF Operations. It gathers the extraordinary amount of metrics generated within the environment, and distills it down into meaningful and actionable information for your optimization, troubleshooting, and planning efforts. … Continued

If you are running Nested vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA) or vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) workloads on top of a physical vSAN OSA setup, you may want to enable the Guest TRIM/UN…

Whether you are configuring vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) directly from vCenter Server or from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the underlying ESXi hardware is automatically validated again…