Every 6-9 months VMware has been pushing out a new feature release of vSAN. After vSphere and vSAN 7.0, which introduced vSphere Lifecycle Manager and vSAN File Services, it is now time to share with you what is new for vSAN 7.0 U1. Again it is a feature-packed release, with many “smaller enhancements, but also the introduction of some bigger functionality. Let’s just list the key features that have just been announced, and then discuss each of these individually. You better sit down, as this is going to be a long post. Oh, and note, this is an announcement, not the actual availability of vSAN 7.0 U1, for that you will have to wait some time.
- vSAN HCI Mesh
- vSAN Data Persistence Platform
- vSAN Direct Configuration
- vSAN File Services – SMB support
- vSAN File Services – Performance enhancements
- vSAN File Services – Scalability enhancements
- vSAN Shared Witness
- Compression-only
- Data-in-transit encryption
- Secure wipe
- vSAN IO Insight
- Effective capacity enhancements
- Enhanced availability during maintenance mode
- Faster host restarts
- Enhanced pre-check for vSAN maintenance mode
- Ability to override default gateway through the UI
- vLCM support for Lenovo