Why Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN)?

vSAN focuses on deploying VM vSAN as rapidly as possible and provides you with the ability to provision storage and other resources from a single administration console. In collaboration with VMware, we are able to deliver an alternative to traditional fibre channel SAN, which is known for its complexity and operational challenges.

vSAN introduces a new high-performance storage tier optimized for enterprise-class virtual environments. It is simple to operate, robust and efficient; reducing the total cost of ownership. It is a perfect solution for enterprises that need scalability and a maximum cost to return solution.

A vSAN is a pre-configured single or multi-node server hardware configuration for use with vSAN VMs. Some solutions provide predefined or default configuration profiles including specific type and amount of CPU, memory, HDD, and IO Controller devices within each server.

Each configuration profile provides a differentiated price or performance focus, aimed at numerous user case requirements. Each profile assumes a target number of VM per node, utilizing an average VM profile size.

Clustering technology is used to reduce the risk of faults through incremental replication.

vSAN centralized storage solutions for VM solutions are the future for a whole multitude of applications, providing solution providers with VMs quicker and more economically. Whether you are conducting research, rolling out platforms at a multi-site level, or just running your business off them; clustered storage with replication will come in handy.

Together with flexibility, scalability, performance, manageability, and many other benefits of using VMware vSAN, with their 7th Update comes a new great feature – vSAN HCI Mesh. With this new update, vSAN administrators can mount remote vSAN datastores from other vSAN clusters, allowing customers to make even better use of spare storage they have on their vSAN clusters. With HCI Mesh, the compute for a VM can be run locally with the local vSAN cluster and its storage backend can be run in a remote vSAN datastore.