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https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-au/000201526/secure-cryptographic-erase-drives-in-the-lifecycle-controller

See my second link. The math for a 30.72TB drive is a bit different - ie, Guaranteed Endurance (PBW) is 31.5. It likely won't fail exactly at 32PBW, but you will (very likely) lose the warranty after it. However, since you'd be stripping data across many drives, you won't be writing 1PB on each...

I'd throw one more wrench here, just for the heck of it. OP mentioned that the larger SSD (750TB) array will receive very frequent writes and rewrites. With that in mind, going with QLC drives, even with increased durability of 122TB drives by Solidigm, the endurance of each drive is only...

Just ask Cisco :)

Finally. A valid point, on piles and piles of rubbish.

The cobbler’s children have no shoes

100%. I'd also add that vSAN (pre-ESA architecture) is just as great as VxRail.

Thanks, but from your answer and it sounds like you're closer to product or sales teams, rather than an engineering one, since your reply doesn't answer my question, just dances around it. To address what was NOT said, but was implied in the VMware port you linked to is: Native Driver Model (for...

Would you also mind elaborating, at least in broad strokes, which architecture changes from 6.7 to 7 mandated such drastic changes at first place? Afaik, the feature improvements in 7 vs 6.7 were abysmally minimal.

You'll find some decent responses here: Bottom line, besides this idea is practically dead, to use it, you would require specifically crafted software.

According to B-Com, things are moving along exactly as planned. VMware is rapidly becoming the next "mainframe," and only a few graybeards to support it. They will not fix it, it's working as designed. If you are still confused, look up what happened to both CA and Symantec solutions. Once the...

I should've added: "and will pull" And one more for fun: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/

OP asked for 10gig. N305 comes with SFP ports, not SFP+ This is the TopTon OP would need (not out yet): X4H N100 N305 aka TOPTON X4H-XL

I'm (expired) DC-VCAP and will learn Mandarin before I go back to VMware products (unless my income depends on it). Definitely not at home.

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