Preface
VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is the converged storage solution for VMware vSphere.
Integrated directly into the hypervisor, this is a native solution with no VM-based intermediaries for storage delivery. As a result, VSAN is fast, simple to deploy and manage, and integrates tightly with the existing VMware vSphere product suite.
As the solution is native to ESXi and runs on the hypervisor itself, its architecture is simplified and the storage-delivery mechanism is tightly integrated and uniquely suited to the needs of vSphere infrastructures. VSAN is an object-oriented storage solution, where each VM is comprised of a number of objects physically distributed across the ESXi cluster. This object-oriented nature means that access to your data ...
Get VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
