Foreword by Ben Fathi
When I arrived at VMware in early 2012, I was given the charter to deliver the next generation of vSphere, our flagship product. It was a humbling experience, but exhilarating at the same time. A few months into the role, I welcomed our storage group to the team, and I had the honor of working closely with a dedicated team of engineers. I saw that they were building something very unique—what I believe will be a significant turning point in the history of storage.
We set out to build a distributed fault tolerant storage system optimized for virtual environments. Our goal was to build a product that had all the qualities of shared storage (resilience, performance, scalability, and so on) but running on standard x86 servers ...
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