In case you haven’t heard, VMware and Kasten have been working together for several years now to provide data management for Kubernetes and cloud native apps. VMware is well-known for virtualization and cloud computing software, and for offering a range of products and solutions for data centers and cloud environments.
When it comes to modern applications, VMware recognizes the need for storage solutions that are optimized for the requirements of these applications, which often include cloud native architectures, microservices, containers, and orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes.
VMware has been actively working on integrating storage technologies with its virtualization and containerization platforms to provide comprehensive solutions for modern applications. With the introduction of vSAN 7, the company has extended and enhanced its cloud native storage capabilities to allow containerized applications to deploy and use file-level persistent storage. Additionally, persistent volumes are now able to support the use of encryption and snapshots. With the release of vSphere 7.0, VMware now provides virtual volumes (vVOLs) support as well.
All of these integrations are critical to the benefits provided by vSphere Add-on for Kubernetes (formerly known as Project Pacific), VMware’s initiative to allow customers to build, run and manage modern, cloud native applications on Kubernetes, in vSphere.
Compared to earlier versions of vSAN, the CNS capabilities in vSAN 7 enable:
Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) of persistent volumes for containers is preferable to using tagging in vSphere, because with SPBM, volumes can be changed. Inherent to Kubernetes, storage classes cannot be changed on a persistent volume. Tagging using vSphere can only influence initial placement, not ongoing changes. As a result, SPBM offers superior flexibility.
VMware has responded by offering a modern app platform that supports cloud native apps on vSphere by extending the existing vSphere platform to manage and operate Kubernetes apps. Now users can leverage vCenter workflows with the following components:
As a VMware design partner for data management, Kasten K10 can be seamlessly deployed with vSAN 7 to enhance its inherent data protection capabilities. And while VMware SRM can help you and your organization protect more traditional VM workloads, Kasten K10 can protect your cloud native applications deployed on vSphere with Tanzu.
Here are some of the ways Kasten K10 can be used in conjunction with VMware vSAN 7:
By integrating Kasten K10 with VMware vSAN 7, your organization can benefit from application-aware data management, advanced data protection and workload portability, along with multi-cloud support and enhanced automation. In this way, you can optimize your containerized application deployments on vSAN, ensuring data availability and recoverability, while streamlining data management.
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