Cloud Field Notes
Practical notes on cloud and infrastructure, from the platform down to the hardware. By Phil Balfanz.
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vSAN Global Deduplication in VCF: More Capacity from the Same Hosts
A deeper look at vSAN Global Deduplication in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: how cluster-wide, post-process dedup works, what it requires, how it works with vSAN Data-at-Rest Encryption and key providers, and how to judge the savings honestly.
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Memory Tiering in VCF: Doubling Memory with DRAM and NVMe
A deeper look at Memory Tiering in VMware Cloud Foundation: how DRAM and NVMe work as two memory tiers, what the performance testing showed, when it fits, and how to get started.