Horizon View 6 integration with Virtual SAN

Before explaining how View works with Virtual SAN (VSAN), let's look at a quick overview of VSAN.

VSAN is one of the highlights of vSphere 5.5 and helps enhance VMware's future vision of their Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) solution. VSAN is a software-based storage solution that is integrated into the ESXi hypervisor. It uses the host's local disk drives (you need both SSD and HDD) to aggregate them to appear as a cluster wide storage pool shared across all hosts. The following figure shows the VSAN solution:

Horizon View 6 integration with Virtual SAN

This creates a highly available and scaled-out clustered storage solution for hosting your ...

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