Month: September 2018

VMworld 2018 – Achieving a GDPR-Ready Architecture Leveraging VMware vSAN (HCI3452BU)

by pgkeilty, posted in Encryption, HCI, VSAN

Over the last few years I’ve gotten to know the folks at HyTrust pretty well. They are a great VMware partner and provide a critical piece to the vSAN and VM encryption puzzle for VMware customers. VMware doesn’t have an encryption Key Management Server solution so we rely on 3rd party vendors like HyTrust. They have a solution that provides highly available KMS servers which is essential to maintaining data availability. You can get more details here:

HyTrust KeyControl with VSAN and VMware vSphere VM Encryption

For this session, Dave Siles, VP, Business Development / Alliances, opened up discussing the details around GDPR and factors to consider when architecting solutions to meet the requirements. If you don’t know Dave, he’s as smart and technical as they come. He could spend hours discussing all the details but for this session he did a great job breaking it down to its simplest form. I then discussed VMware technology that aligns with GDPR requirements including Workspace One, NSX, vSphere, vSAN, and the vReailze Suite. I spent the majority of time discussing VM encryption and vSAN encryption for Data at Rest Encryption. Dave then shared some of the details about HyTrust products to meed specific needs and we then fielded questions from the audience.

If you want to check out the session, go to:

Achieving a GDPR-Ready Architecture Leveraging VMware vSAN (HCI3452BU)

VMworld 2018 – vSAN Technical Customer Panel on vSAN Experiences (HCI1615PU)

by pgkeilty, posted in HCI, Uncategorized, VMworld, VSAN

We had a great time at VMworld 2018 during the vSAN Technical Customer Panel with these 4 great vSAN customers:

HCI1615PU-Panalists

They introduced themselves, discussed how they are using vSAN in their environment, and the benefits achieved. After that, we had a stream of questions from the audience that provoked some interesting discussions. If you want to check it out you can view the recorded session here:

vSAN Technical Customer Panel on vSAN Experiences (HCI1615PU)

Also, there is a great TechTarget Converged Infrastructure summary of the session by Dave Raffo here:

vSAN hyper-converged users offer buying, implementing advice

This is the third year in the row I’ve been fortunate enough to host this session. This year was the best attended and had the best audience questions. FYI, my colleague, Lee Dilworth, will be hosing this session in Barcelona so we look forward to a good crowd with more good questions and discussion.