Pete Koehler

Pete Koehler, a vSAN expert, dives deep into the newly released vSAN ESA global deduplication feature. He explains the advantages of this approach, including its cluster-wide deduplication domain and how it minimizes VM performance impact. The discussion reveals the surprising requirements, like needing at least three hosts and 25GbE networking. Koehler also addresses the limitations, noting that stretched clusters and data-at-rest encryption aren't supported yet. Finally, he shares how customers can request access to this limited release.