Eric Sloof

VMware’s vSAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms, and is the market leader in the hyper-converged space.

Along the way, the world of IT has rapidly changed, not just from a software point of view, but also from a hardware perspective. With vSAN 8.0 VMware brought a new architecture to market called vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA).

This architecture is highly optimized for today's world of data center resources, be it CPU, memory, networking, or NVMe based flash storage.

The authors of the vSAN Deep Dive have thoroughly updated their definitive guide to this transformative technology. Writing for vSphere administrators, architects, and consultants, Cormac Hogan, Duncan Epping , and Pete Koehler explain what vSAN ESA is, why the architecture has changed, what it now offers, and how to gain maximum value from it.

The book offers expert insight into preparation, installation, configuration, policies, provisioning, clusters, architecture, and more. You’ll also find practical guidance for using all data services, stretched clusters, two-node configurations, and cloud-native storage services.

Learn about the exciting new features and enhancements that vSphere 8 Update 1 brings to improve operational efficiency, elevate security and supercharge workloads. For more, see https://core.vmware.com

Power Actions is a remote plug-in that enables you to run PowerCLI scripts from the vSphere Client, and implement custom actions on the vSphere inventory objects.

Power Actions integrates the PowerCLI in the vSphere client to provide automation capabilities for the standard vSphere management client. Power Actions is a remote plug-in that enables you to leverage the PowerCLI capabilities from the vSphere Client.


For example, as an administrator, you can define a new action for a virtual machine object by writing a PowerCLI script that accepts a virtual machine as a parameter and saving it into a script/content library.

You can then share it with other users within your company who can execute the script as-is, without requiring PowerShell knowledge. Power Actions is available for download as a virtual appliance from the VMware Flings website and can be installed through the vSphere client plug-in installer.

New Release – Power Actions 1.0 by Kamen Nikolov

The VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing is a quarterly online series designed to help organizations succeed with their multi-cloud strategies. This session—Navigate Economic Headwinds with a Cloud-Smart Approach—explores how IT organizations can use cloud services to help their companies not only endure global macroeconomic challenges but emerge from this turbulent economic environment in an even stronger position.

Through thought-leadership discussions and product demonstrations, you’ll learn how to optimize spend across your private and public clouds, and to bolster resiliency in the face of increasing cyberthreats. Speakers include VMware CEO Raghu Ragharam and other VMware business and technical leaders, including Vittorio Viarengo, Purnima Padmanabhan, Chris McCain, John McLoughlin, TJ March, Brandon Gordon, and Michael McLaughlin.