As technology continues to advance, the demand for faster and more efficient storage solutions increases. One such solution is the Intel Optane SSD, a new type of solid-state drive (SSD) that offers a significant performance boost compared to traditional SSDs. Another advantage of Intel Optane SSD is its ability to work in conjunction with traditional…
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vSphere 8 Core Storage – New Features!
During the VMware Explore US, the vSphere 8 has been announced. Now let’s have a look at some new core storage enhanced features. vVols Enhancements The new version of vSphere will bring NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) support for vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols). NVMe-oF provides better performance and lower latency over typical SCSI. NVMe is designed for…
Read moreVCSA storage/core at 100% – core.in:imfiles
There is a know bug in VCSA 6.7 and 7.0 where core.in:imfiles fill up /storage/core. This issue was fixed with vSphere 7 Update 3c, however you may still need a workaround. This strange issue hit my vCenter Server which is on version 7.0 Update 2d. The tech support said they never saw a client being…
Read moreHow to add SimpliVity datastore to standard ESXi server
But why one may ask… I came across this issue once I was actually decommissioning SimpliVity cluster and I had to vMotion all Virtual Machines to another host with local datastore. vMotion was failing for some reason and the only way to resolve it was to attach Simplivity to the target host. Here is my…
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