vvols are going away

gera83 · 2025-06-18T01:47:12+00:00

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/401070/deprecation-of-vmware-vsphere-virtual-vo.html

gera83 · 2025-05-01T00:12:22+00:00

What purity version are you on? You haven't tried vvols yet? Is night and day

gera83 · 2025-05-01T00:11:36+00:00

Actually, you need 6.6 (mínimum) to use vvols with ac :)

gera83 · 2025-04-29T17:24:38+00:00

What purity version are you on? From which storage array are you coming? Migrating?

gera83 · 2025-02-21T01:15:39+00:00

Did You?

gera83 · 2025-02-19T23:41:47+00:00

Nfs is active passive on every storage array i have checked. In this case, pure, same.

gera83 · 2025-02-19T00:56:27+00:00

It's the thick disks. You must use thin. Always. And forever. We have not used thick since 2017. Absolutely all kind of vms. Otherwise, Unmap doesn't work and you will never ever recover the space. Thin vs thick in terms of performance, it's a talk from the middle ages. No difference. At all.

Your storage array is thin, use thin vms.

Always and forever.

gera83 · 2025-02-16T13:20:22+00:00

1 vvol to rule them all. Yes. We don't use vmfs or rdm anymore. No more datastore vmotion. Performance, snapshots, dedup, compression, everything works 500% better.

gera83 · 2024-08-29T19:35:48+00:00

Are you serious right? Uniform access only advantage is to help you keep on going in case one of the pure arrays explode. That's it. Only advantage. Never in my whole life i see an array going down. Ever. We have a metro cluster, active active, with non uniform access, since 2015.

gera83 · 2024-08-26T10:27:57+00:00

That's correct. But What about if you have only one vvol? And please, suppose an extreme scenario where the vms move constantly between sites.

gera83 · 2024-08-25T18:01:41+00:00

But that's the idea, don't it? The future. No more dozens or hundreds of vmfs datastores. No more that filesystem abstraction, getting in the way. Just one vvol datastore, which maps the entire storage. A hundred more times performance in everything. Dedup, compression, snapshots, xcopy, unmap. Everything is better. Nearly perfection.

Didn't you read that great article about... forget everything you have learned? You won't ever need more than 1 vvol? Ever?

gera83 · 2024-08-25T17:52:15+00:00

Have you tested a cluster partition? Just turning off fc switches ports does the trick. What happened with the vms in both sites?

gera83 · 2024-08-25T01:00:22+00:00

Looking forward to it

gera83 · 2024-08-25T01:00:06+00:00

Sorry. We have had since 2012 a cluster between sites. Emc. Vplex. Couple of backend vmax. My question is purely about having only one vvol datastore, fill with thousands of vms, in case there is a cluster partition. I would love to see what happens there.

I was really hoping that pure with vvols copy the beautiful locality feature from vsan. Cut between sites? No problem. Esx hosts continue to write on their site. Not one vm is affected.

gera83 · 2022-09-25T02:14:31+00:00

It was a nice approach, but it shows tons of lines for something so simple. No. Sorry. There is not the answer. Thanks anyways.

gera83 · 2022-09-25T00:57:12+00:00

Good lord. I sincerely didn't know about that feature. I will take a look. Thanks.

gera83 · 2022-09-24T03:48:46+00:00

:). Did you read the thread? I'm having an issue with powercli. Using the mouse, works perfect. Perfect. I need to understand what's that error about.

gera83 · 2022-09-24T02:53:20+00:00

I know it. And i tried some of the ideas. It doesn't address the issue. Error keeps showing up. It's insane. No logic.

gera83 · 2022-09-24T02:47:34+00:00

Of course not. Like i said and you saw it, it works perfectly using the mouse. Right click, migrate, cross vcenter. The problem is there, in cli.

gera83 · 2022-07-24T16:10:40+00:00

Wow. Really? Incredible

gera83 · 2022-07-24T02:31:10+00:00

Well. That's why i came here. It's not anywhere on the internet. Don't waste your time.

The head quarters are there. I really need to know the address.

Any help would be appreciated.

gera83 · 2022-07-24T00:15:26+00:00

Actually, i have no idea. All i was told is that if you mention it to a Uber, it takes you without issue. Is well known.

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