VSAN 6.0 Part 8 – Fault Domains
One of the really nice new features of VSAN 6.0 is fault domains. Previously, there was very little control over where VSAN placed virtual machine components. In order to protect against something like...
View ArticleHeads Up! Horizon View 6.1 and AF-VSAN Policies
I had a query recently from a partner who was deploying VMware Horizon View 6.1 on top of an all-flash VSAN 6.0. They had done all the due diligence with configuring the AF-VSAN appropriately, marking...
View ArticleCan Storage Policies be used with VIC?
The answer is an emphatic yes. One can absolutely use storage policies with vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC). However, there is currently no way to specify a policy at the docker CLI when creating a...
View ArticlevRealize Automation SPBM Integration Solution v2.1.0 is out
Last week I wrote about the new vSAN management pack for vRealize Operations. This week sees another nice new storage feature/solution released. This time it is a solution to integrate vRealize...
View ArticleChanging policies on-the-fly with VVols
Last week, I was presenting at the VMware User Group (VMUG) event in Poland. My topic was SPBM, Storage Policy Based Management. This is the framework for consuming data services, whether these are...
View ArticlePreventing selection of certain datastores with SPBM
One of the great things about presenting at VMware User Group meetings is actually talking to customers and finding out about what their pain points are, and how VMware can improve on our products and...
View ArticleWorkflow issues when vCenter instance not correctly added to vRO
As part of my preparation work for VMworld 2018, I was looking into how one might be able to automate the deployment of VMs from vRealize Automation 7.4 with an appropriate policy for consuming the...
View ArticleUsing PowerCLI SPBM cmdlets to create VMs with storage policy
Recently I was looking for a way to consume the Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) cmdlets in PowerCLI. I wanted to see if I could provision a VM from a Template onto my vSAN datastore with a...
View ArticleKubernetes, Hadoop, Persistent Volumes and vSAN
At VMworld 2018, one of the sessions I presented on was running Kubernetes on vSphere, and specifically using vSAN for persistent storage. In that presentation (which you can find here), I used Hadoop...
View ArticleNew vRealize Automation, Cloud Assembly integration with SPBM
At VMworld last year, Duncan Epping and I presented on the power of Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM for short). You can find all of the slides and recordings here. One of the demos we used in the...
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