VMware vSAN utilizing Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is an interesting one. Being able to independently increment storage in the VMC without adding compute nodes is a feature that has been missing, until now.
Customers of VMware Cloud on AWS will now be able to scale storage independently of compute, by adding new EBS storage nodes.
Overview#
R5.Metal Physical Host Configuration#
- 3 disk groups per host
- All storage provided by EBS GP2
- Raw capacity tier of 15-35TB
- Configured at Cluster creation
- 5TB increments Compression Enabled
| Item | Available |
|---|---|
| CPU | Skylake-SP |
| Sockets per Host | 2 |
| Cores per Socket | 24 |
| Cores per Host | 48 |
| Threads per Host | 96 |
| Memory | 768 GB |
| Storage | EBS GP2 |
| NICs | 1 x ENA |
Note: This new storage cluster needs to be added to an existing SDDC and cannot be the first cluster that is provisioned in the customer environment.