An introduction to VMware Virtual SAN
Here is the definition provided by VMware—"VMware Virtual SAN is a new software-defined storage tier for VMware vSphere environments. Virtual SAN clusters server disks and flash to create radically simple, high - performance, resilient shared storage designed for virtual machines."
They say history repeats itself; true to this, we have completed a cycle moving from server-based in-built storage to storage array networks (SAN), we did this primarily for the following two basic key requirements:
- Scalability: The local disk capacity was insufficient
- Mobility and Resiliency: Server-based disks proved to be a single point of failure
Hence, moving to SAN storage addressed these requirements and brought to the table ...
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