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Introducing vSAN File Services as part of vSAN 7.0

Duncan Epping · Mar 17, 2020 · 8 Comments

There was a great article by Cormac talking about vSAN File Services published last week. I had some articles planned, but hadn’t started yet, so when I saw the article I figured I would do something different. No point in rehashing what Cormac has already shared right. I figured I would shoot another demo, and do a brief write-up so people know what vSAN File Services is all about. In vSAN/vSphere 7.0 there’s now a new feature, and this is vSAN File Service. vSAN File Services can simply be enabled on a cluster level and provides you NFS 3 and 4.1 capabilities. The great thing about the solution is that you can create file shares and associate policies with the file shares. In other words, you can have a file share with RAID-1, RAID-5, or maybe even striping or stretched across locations when that is supported.

When you enable File Service, vSAN will deploy a number of “agent VMs” and these VMs/appliances are fully managed by vSAN. These agent VMs run Photon OS and have the file service capabilities enabled through docker/container technology. After these File Service Agent VMs have been deployed, the docker container instances have been instantiated and configured, vSAN File Service will be up and running and available for use. Next, you could simply create a file share and start consuming it. But before I reveal everything, let’s just head over to the demo below. I hope you enjoy it!

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  1. Marcos says

    17 March, 2020 at 16:38

    Hi Duncan,

    Thanks for the info, as i talked with Cormac once i saw this article, it was very cool that we can create also cifs, used nfs with kerberos or multiprotocol. We have a lot of customer that have VSA appliances (from NetApp, EMC, …) and it´s a very Good option to avoid any 3party VSA.

    Thanks

    Reply
    • Duncan Epping says

      25 March, 2020 at 09:00

      that is great to hear!

      Reply
  2. Fletcher Cocquyt says

    17 March, 2020 at 17:24

    Hi Duncan, do these features require enterprise licence ?

    Reply
    • Duncan Epping says

      25 March, 2020 at 08:59

      I don’t know which license edition this will be available in.

      Reply
    • Santosh Agrawal says

      5 April, 2020 at 17:14

      Yes the Files Services feature requires Enterprise or Enterprise Plus License of vSAN. vSAN has come up with one more edition Ent+ 🙂

      Reply
  3. Alex says

    10 May, 2020 at 22:24

    Have they increased the maximum size for write cache in a disk group from 600GB maximum?

    Reply
    • Duncan says

      10 May, 2020 at 23:02

      No,that hasn’t changed

      Reply
  4. Epi says

    23 July, 2020 at 11:51

    Hi Duncan, any reasons stopping us from presenting an NFS share to the vSAN hosts themselves, for coredump and logs?

    Reply

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007) and the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive" and the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series.

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