What Is Data Reduction? Deduplication vs Compression
Data overload? Learn how to cut through it with data deduplication and data compression.
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How to build a home lab using your PC? Setting up VMware vSAN on nested ESXi hosts
Hi, guys, I finally managed to finish an article on deploying VMware vSAN on the nested ESXi hosts. Some had difficulties with setting up the networking for this scenario, so here’s a guide on this matter from me!
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VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1 – A Leap Forward in Cloud Management
What’s new in VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1? Explore enhanced cloud management, seamless upgrade flows, advanced Private AI and GPU monitoring, and lots of other improvements.
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SAN vs VSAN. What is the Difference?
Gain insights into storage efficiency and reliability with a comparison of Virtual SAN (VSAN) and SAN. VSAN’s simplicity or SAN’s mission-critical prowess – what’s your pick?
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High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance
Running a company heavily reliant on IT services and wondering how to improve business continuity? Our new article explains the key differences between High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT) and will help you choose the right IT resilience strategy.
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What is virtualization? A Deep Dive Guide
It truly seems that you couldn’t possibly find a person today who hasn’t heard of virtualization technology yet. Considering its more efficient use of a physical machine’s resources, there’s no surprise whatsoever as to why it has become an industry standard for enterprise IT architecture. However, are you sure you know all there is to know?
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VMware vSAN 8.0 Express Storage Architecture (ESA) Efficiency and Performance
vSphere 8 introduces VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA), focused on efficiency, performance, and less CPU usage. The new configuration has been optimized for NVMe-based TLC flash devices, abandoning cache layers and disk groups. VMware will privilege the deployments of vSAN as ESA, moving forward.
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VMware Monitoring with SexiGraph – New Release
SexiGraph is open-source community-based software for monitoring vSphere, including V7 U3, vSAN and its APIs. The project leverages a Grafana frontend and is very fast at providing all kinds of vSphere-related data in an appealing visual format. Definitely worth checking out if you want VMware environment data quick and easy on the eyes.
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VMware vSphere Native Key Provider Best Practices
There are many “moving parts” to cybersecurity, among which, encryption is on the frontline. Previously, you’d have to use a third-party key management solution to facilitate security in a vSphere environment. Now, you can use Native Key Provider to integrate vSAN encryption, VM encryption, and virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPM).
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