In this episode I’m joined by Pete Flecha, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware, as we discuss VVOL’s. VMware’s new approach to delivering storage to virtual infrastructures. VVOL’s look to address many of the problems traditional SAN based storage presents to Virtual infrastructures. Pete provides an intro to the problems VVOL’s look to address, how they go about it and what we can expect from the recent vSphere 6.5 release that brings us VVOL’s v2.0.

Although I’m not a VVOL expert I find what VMware are looking to do here really interesting as they look to tackle one of the key issues that IT leaders constantly look to address. How to reduce the complexity of their environments so they can react quicker to new demands from their business.

VVOL’s allows for the complexity of any underlying storage infrastructure to be hidden from the virtualisation administrators, giving those managing and deploying applications, servers and services a uniformity of experience, so they can focus on quickly deploying their infrastructure resources.

As we all strive to ensure our IT infrastructures meet the ever changing needs and demands of our organisations, anything that simplifies, automates and ensures consistency across our environments is, in my opinion, a good thing.

It certainly seems that VVOL’s are a strong step in that direction.

In this episode Pete provides a brilliant taster of what VVOL’s are designed to do and the challenges they meet. I hope you enjoy it.





If you want more VVOL details Pete is the host of VMware’s fantastic vSpeaking podcast and last week they had an episode dedicated to VVOLS’s you can pick that up here.

vSpeaking Podcast ep:32 VVOLs 2.0

You can find all the other episodes of the vSpeaking podcast here

You can keep up with Pete and the excellent work he’s doing at VMware by following him on twitter @vpedroarrow

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