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VMware Virtual SANâ„¢ and vSphere Replicationâ„¢ change the face of disaster recovery for the software-defined data center.
According to recent VMware research, improving the availability of IT services is the single most desired IT outcome of the software-defined data center (SDDC)1. Forrester Research agrees, revealing that “improving BC/DR†was the top reason that customers began virtualizing their x86-server infrastructure i...
The storage market is inundated by new technologies and architectures. In March of 2014, it went in an entirely new direction. That is when VMware introduced Virtual SAN: the first VMware entry into the “software-defined storage†product category. Virtual SAN is optimized for VMware vSphere® environments and is doing for storage what VMware vSphere did for compute.
Since its introduction, Virtual SAN has captured a lot of industry at...
The big news in the vSphere world these days is “VSAN†–Virtual SAN, now supported as part of vSphere 5.5 U1. Virtual SAN represents a new approach to storage designed for virtual environments. With Virtual SAN, VI admins can create a shared pool of storage from locally attached disks in a vSphere cluster.
You can think of Virtual SAN as part of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)—it’s software-defined storage. ...