VMware has announced general availability of VMware Virtual SAN. This is its first Software-Defined Storage product.
Built directly into the VMware vSphere kernel, VMware Virtual SAN provides a new tier of hypervisor-converged storage. The software abstracts and pools internal magnetic disks and flash devices from industry-standard x86 servers to produce a high-performance and resilient shared data store for virtual machines (VMs).
"VMware changes the way that storage has been operated to date. VMware Virtual SAN is a radically simple storage solution optimized for virtual environments that brings an application-centric approach to storage management. Customers that know VMware vSphere know VMware Virtual SAN, and can rely on that familiarity to hit the ground running with VMware Virtual SAN," said John Gilmartin, Vice-President & General Manager, SDDC Suite Business Unit, VMware.
VMware Virtual SAN simplifies storage provisioning and management while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), enabling a fundamentally more agile operational model. VMware Virtual SAN provides reliability and robustness of an enterprise storage system, and is highly resilient protecting against data loss in the event of any hardware failures. It is ideally suited for several use cases in virtual environments such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), test/development, and disaster recovery.
