As you may have seen, today VMware announced the release of VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 (and vSphere 7.0 U2 as well of course). I was planning on doing a post on the 7.0 U2 release, but then I figured that I would try to record a video discussing most of the new features and enhancements introduced. Note, I do not cover the full release, I picked the features which I felt deserved some attention. I uploaded the video to my Youtube Channel, make sure to visit it and subscribe, as I will be releasing demos on various features in the upcoming weeks with some more detail where needed. Hope you enjoy it, and again, make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel!
Hi Duncan, that video is a great intruduction into the new features of 7.0u2. Thank you for that first ;D
That new VSAN feature, that allows ESXi use HCI-Mesh without having Disk by them self, looks very interesting. It could be the first steps for some great usage of SmartNics. I think it would be cool to build a VSAN cluster out of SmartNics and each SmartNic-Host present the VSAN Datastore to the ESXi Host where the SmartNic is plugged in. That can even be done with RoCE, because the SmartNic can give n SRIOV-virtualDevice to the Host where it is plugged in.
Hello and thanks for the video 🙂
One of your slide (at 2:00) seems to say that compression only would be now a storage policy setting and not a global vsan datastore setting as it is now ?
It would be very nice improvement ! This way we could migrate some VMs in compress mode but not all.
This would allow to have another performance adjustment setting and also allow us to test the benefits of compression without converting whole vsan datastore.
New system for monitoring of top VMs (iops, latency, …) is a big plus !
I don’t know if it is on the roadmap, but I try my luck there so you may upvote these features requests … :
– allow us to divide vsan datastore into small logical datastores, this way we could delegate access to IT admins only on a specific sub-vsan and not fear them to fill the whole vsandatastore by mistake.
– correct the “space usage” information on vsphere client for a VM that is completly false when the VM is stored on vsan
– multiple vmkernel vsan 🙂
The policy aspect for dedupe/compression/encryption was added for HCI Mesh specifically. So it does not allow you to set it per VM, but it does allow you to specify that a VM needs to be placed on a datastore which has it enabled. So unfortunately something different then what you are looking for.
With regards to your feature requests:
1) I have filed this a while back
2) this should be solved in 7.x
3) multi-kernel vSAN is also something which we have requested.
Unfortunately, I am not allowed to share priorities / status as you can imagine.