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title: Four Production-Ready Storage Capabilities Every VMware Cloud Foundation Admin Needs to Know
url: https://www.vmware.com/explore/video/6403821749112
description: Are you ready to move beyond the roadmap and start architecting for today? Join VMware® vSAN™ experts Duncan Epping and Pete Koehler for a deep dive into the high-impact storage features currently shipping in VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9.1. We will go under the hood of the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) to show how to achieve massive space savings without compromising performance using global deduplication and the new compression algorithm. We will explain how the adoption of QLC can improve your total cost of ownership and enables new use cases on your VCF-based private cloud. Lastly, we will demonstrate how to deploy VCF Native S3 Object Storage to support cloud-native applications and show the Ransomware Recovery workflow, illustrating how to leverage native recovery tools and ESA’s deep snapshot capabilities to recover with confidence.
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# Four Production-Ready Storage Capabilities Every VMware Cloud Foundation Admin Needs to Know

[Four Production-Ready Storage Capabilities Every VMware Cloud Foundation Admin Needs to Know](https://players.brightcove.net/6164421911001/lUBT2rAMW_default/index.html?videoId=6403821749112)  
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## Abstract
Are you ready to move beyond the roadmap and start architecting for today? Join VMware® vSAN™ experts Duncan Epping and Pete Koehler for a deep dive into the high-impact storage features currently shipping in VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9.1. 

We will go under the hood of the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) to show how to achieve massive space savings without compromising performance using global deduplication and the new compression algorithm. We will explain how the adoption of QLC can improve your total cost of ownership and enables new use cases on your VCF-based private cloud. Lastly, we will demonstrate how to deploy VCF Native S3 Object Storage to support cloud-native applications and show the Ransomware Recovery workflow, illustrating how to leverage native recovery tools and ESA’s deep snapshot capabilities to recover with confidence.

### Session Info
- **Session Code**: CLOB1085LV
- **Type**: Breakout Session
- **Track**: Cloud Infrastructure
- **Products**: VMware vSAN
- **Level**: Technical 300
- **Event Delivery**: [Las Vegas](https://www.vmware.com/explore/us)
- **Year**: 2026

### Speakers
- ![Duncan Epping](https://static.rainfocus.com/vmware/explore2026lv/att/1713252930974001ihKo/attprofile/avatar-1a_1782204246409001NigT.jpg)  
  ## Duncan Epping  
  Distinguished Engineering Architect  
  Broadcom  
  Duncan Epping is a Distinguished Engineering Architect at Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation division, specializing in storage and disaster/cyber recovery. Duncan is the author of Yellow-Bricks.com, the vSAN/Clustering Deep Dive book series, and the host of the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

- ![Pete Koehler](https://static.rainfocus.com/vmware/explore2026lv/att/1713887278518001uxnS/attprofile/profile-2023-square%20-%20220_1781883882940001eHfR.jpeg)  
  ## Pete Koehler  
  Technical Marketing  
  Broadcom  
  Pete Koehler is part of the product team in the VMware Cloud Foundation division at Broadcom. He specializes in VMware vSAN, storage, data center architectures, performance, and analytics, and is the co-author of the best-seller "vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture (ESA) Deep Dive".

### Presentation PDF
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