As the private cloud landscape develops, VMware cloud services (VCSP) providers continue to seek ways to simplify operations, scalance with effect and provide differentiated services to their tenants. With VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, this is a great time to explore the benefits of VMware VSAN offering your business.
With VCF 9.0, we will double the powerful new features driven by VSAN to help VCSP modernize their infrastructure, streamline operations and meet the dynamic requirements of modern applications. As you know, the VCF license includes 1 TIB VSAN on a core, an advantage that many VCSPs can use more strategically to reduce the cost of their private cloud deployment.
In this blog, we will go through what is new in VSAN with VCF 9.0 and how VCCSPs can use these features to create a more durable, scalable and richer repository such as services and private cloud offers to better serve their customers.
Bringing an existing environment vsan to VCF
With VCF 9.0, he expanded support outside the green field deployment. For VCCSP, who already operate the slight VSPhere using VSAN HCI configurations, Vsan stretched or 2-SUN configuration, can now be imported into VCF. This allows you to bring your existing “islands” of a private cloud around a centralized life cycle, security and benefits of VCF operating proceedings without starting from scratch.
It is a huge victory for partners who want to unify their private cloud operations under a single platform while maintaining investments in infrastructure.
Vsan outstretched clusters have just improved
The outstretched clusters continue to be a solution for VCSP, which operate the requirements of zero data loss (RPO = 0). As a service provider, your maintenance windows are critical. While customers understand that maintenance is important, they still expect their system to stay and run without disturbance. We simplify one of the more time -consuming operations, a maintenance system with VCF 9.0. Previously, maintenance meant putting hosts into maintenance mode one by one. Now the entire place can be placed in maintenance mode at the same time, never accelerates operations, reduces the administrator overhead and improves the efficiency of planned maintenance windows.
What’s more, the outstretched cluster storage can now be paired with the computing clusters, which is the main improvement for providing high avillability across all layers of infrastructure. This combination ensures improved resistance Operation and data for your reserved and more rental workload of customers.
Operation Vsan on scale
Management of various cloud tracks is a common challenge for VCSP, especially those operating a mixture of dedicated and more rental private clouds. For VCF 9.0, several cloud instances now can now be fed into VCF operations, providing providers with a single view of monitoring, management and life cycle VSAN cluster around.
And there are more of them, VCF operations now include a powerful new function: Diagnostics VSAN Performance Diagnostics. This tool can:
- Run benchmarks for IOP optimization, latency and permeability
- Analyze historical performance data
- Identify narrow places and provide recommendations
- Generate performance charts for advanced problem solving
This provides VCSP a deep insight into the storage performance trends and helps ensure that the service levels are met.
Scale for modern applications: file services for Kubernetes
As Kubernetes adopts, the application for the underlying storage. Vsan is no longer just about block storage. With VSAN file services in VCF 9.0, the File sharing limit has increased from 250 to 500, which supports the growing needs for SMB and NFS files in a containerized environment.
This improvement provides VCSP more flexibility to support workloads based on Kuberneti with a high density of more tenants.
Storage with multiple questions as a service, refined
Let’s talk about what matters most VCSPs, more tenants.
VCF 9.0 introduces new innovations in VCF automation, which brings known capacities from VMware Cloud Director (VCD) to VCF-NATIVE. Now they can offer VCSP:
- Volume services on a tenant on a shared Klamer Vsan
- Support for permanent volumes for workload Kubernetes
- Checking Policy Granulalar Storage based on the level of subscription holding
- ENNSONMENT quota planning with flexibility bridge more or reserved clusters
- Consumption of self -service for holding administrators with a defined railing provider
It robbed ignoards “Storage as a service“A model that is scalp, safe and adapted to tenants.
Strengthening recovery after a disaster with VSAN
Many partners offer a highly robust capacity of recovery after a disaster, supported by extensive practical experience in Dr. Times every month. This brings the level of operating maturity that complements and increases strategies for customers.
A fixed private cloud solution is not complete without robust capacitimity dr.
In VCF 5.2, we introduced VSAN data protection for local images. Now, with VCF 9.0, we are going one step further by allowing the replication of the on-Pro Recovery image to a disaster from one VCSP data center to another, integrated with VMware Live Site Recovery (VLSR). VCSP can now:
- Replicate images for protection outside the workplace
- Import VSAN Group Protection to VLSR
- Orchestrate plans DR with RPOS up to 1 minute
This seizes VCSP to offer DR premium services with minimal data loss and rapid recovery time.
See: Using images VSAN to expand your video to protect youtube to understand this advantage.
Reducing tCO
As you know, VCF licenses include 1 TIB VSAN on the core, many VCSPs that rely on Fiber Channel or NFS storage, looking at how to help them save money. VCF allows partners to create cloud services that are easier to manage, with built -in tool processing tools, networking and storage in one place.
Many partners have found that they are easy to manage because IT uses existing storage on existing servers or can be easily expanded with more internal disks. In addition, you can start with a small and growth, standard hardware with flexibility. This helps reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for storage and can lead to better profitable margin.
Get a practice with VCF 9.0 and VSAN
As you can see, VSAN in VCF 9.0 provides main innovations across life cycle management, performance, durability, DR and multi-trial. Whether you are modernizing your current private cloud or building new services for Kubernetes and DR, it has never been a better time to get to practical.
If you already have, use these NFR licenses and spin VCF 9.0 with VSAN in your laboratory. It is the best way to explore all new skills and start shaping another big customer victory.
Are you ready to build the next generation of a private cloud? Let Vsan in VCF 9.0 be the basis.
Special thanks to Steve Lord for the co -proving of this blog with me and with the contribution of his deep knowledge of the domain.
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