Virtualization

  • Original Storage Architecture vs Express Storage Architecture

    vSAN 8 Original Storage Architecture vs Express Storage Architecture differences

    VMware vSAN 8 is revolutionary on many fronts and represents the most modern and technilogically advanced vSAN to date for running producton critical workloads. One of the new advancements with vSAN 8 is the new Express Storage Architecture. It is…

  • Ready to begin and select the network configuration

    Install KVM Ubuntu 22.04 – Step-by-Step

    Many hypervisors are great platforms for running virtual machines in your environment, including commercial hypervisors and open-source options. However, let’s look at Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM). KVM on ubuntu 22.04 is a great option for running an open-source virtual machine…

  • New Log Structured file system in vSAN 8

    VMware vSAN 8 – What’s New? Technical Deep Dive

    VMware vSAN represents one of the most significant improvements of VMware vSAN since it was introduced in 2014. The industry has evolved in storage and across the board from a technology perspective. With the hardware of today and the focus…

  • Project Northstar provides a networking and security management plane as a Service

    What is VMware Project Northstar VMware Project Trinidad and VMware Project Watch?

    At VMware Explore 2022, VMware made several announcements related to new cloud networking technologies to provide the tools and features organizations need to provide security in the age of modern applications and workloads. Three project names were released, VMware Project…

  • VMware Aria components including VMWare Aria Cost VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Automation

    What is VMware Aria?

    Businesses today are leveraging more cloud technologies than ever before. Most are embarking on the app modernization journey with Kubernetes front and center to manage and scale their modernized applications. However, this is no light undertaking as it can be…

  • VMware vSphere 8 new features and capabilities

    VMware vSphere 8 vSAN 8 and VMware Cloud Foundation+ Released New Features

    We have all known it was coming for quite some time now and had been waiting for the time when VMware announced vSphere 8 and vSAN 8. However, the wait is over. Today at VMware Explore 2022, VMware has now…

  • VMware vSAN direct high level overview of architecture

    VMware vSAN Direct configuration and requirements

    VMware continues to evolve the VMware vSAN solution, giving organizations even more storage options with their VMware vSAN configurations in a vSAN cluster. One of those options is the VMware vSAN direct capability as part of the vSAN data persistence…

  • High level view of the VMware vSAN stretched cluster

    vSAN Witness Appliance Deployment

    One of the powerful deployments of VMware vSAN is the vSAN stretched cluster configuration. With vSAN stretched cluster, the vSAN data nodes have a vSAN stretched cluster datastore between them, making your data highly available at both locations or fault…

  • VMware vRealize Automation overview

    VMware vRealize Automation 8.9 Released New Features with Kubernetes Automation

    Automation is king today in the enterprise data center to get things done consistently, quickly, and in a way that can be versioned. New application development is a growing trend in the enterprise as organizations adopt and use new modern…

  • Software defined networking capabilities in VMware NSX

    VMware NSX-T 4.0.0.1 has a new name and new features!

    In case you missed the announcement a few days back, the latest release of VMware NSX-T has landed with new features and functionality and also a new name for VMware NSX-T. Let’s take a look at the new version of…