vSAN 6.7 U1 and vSAN Beta Announcement

We all know VMworld is best place and time for all new announcements, VMware announced their new vSAN update this time. VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 and vSAN Beta are the two major announcement and let’s check on this. This post is just to share an announcement update and will come with new posts having more details of vSAN

What’s New with vSAN 6.7 U1

There are awesome features introduces with this new version and the most awaited few

Firmware Updates through VUM

This is one of various VUM Updates feature available in new version and VUM will recognize the vendor type and validate compliance and update. Currently Dell HBA330 only supported and soon other controllers will come up with their update on this.

Cluster Quickstart Wizard

This feature is a single wizard that allows you to select the required services, add the hosts and configure the cluster. You can include configuration of HA, DRS, vSAN and the network components needed to leverage these services.

UNMAP

As you know, VMware UNMAP is a command that allows a way to reclaim space from blocks that have already been written to after data that previously resided on those data blocks has been deleted. And now this feature is available with vSAN , vSAN 6.7 U1 is capable of unmapping blocks when the Guest OS sends an unmap command and it will enhance space efficiency.

If your environments has large files deleted you can enable this feature and the VMs need to be power cycled to apply the unmap setting. Now you will be thinking why power cycle required it is because of during power cycle operation Guest OS actually queries for the unmap capability and as of now there no other option for VMware to force.

Not limited the above features there are enhancements with this new version, find below

New UI Option to change the “Object Repair Timer” value cluster-wide, this is the option which determines when vSAN starts repairing an object which has an absent component.

Additional PowerCLI cmdlets
Mixed MTU support for vSAN Stretched Clusters
Historical capacity reporting
New VROps dashboards with vSAN stretched cluster awareness
Enhanced support experience (Network diagnostic mode, specialized dashboards)
Additional health checks
vSAN 6.7 U1 has the ability to protect data within racks , contact GSS and open an RPQ for this feature

vSAN Beta

vSAN Beta has great features and enhancements with this release including below 3 features