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VMware Cloud on AWS — New Amazon EC2 elastic, bare-metal instance for vSAN

by Christian Mohn · Read in about 1 min (142 words)

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
ItemAvailable
CPUSkylake-SP
Sockets per Host2
Cores per Socket24
Cores per Host48
Threads per Host96
Memory768 GB
StorageEBS GP2
NICs1 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.

Post last updated on August 2, 2019: More markdownlint

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