This topic discusses the limitations of Virtual SAN. You can do most of what you can do with traditional storage by using vSphere components and features including vSphere vMotion, snapshots, clones, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vSphere High Availability, vCenter Site Recovery Manager, and more.
If you are considering Virtual SAN, you can choose from more than one configuration solution for deploying a Virtual SAN cluster.Īfter you have Virtual SAN up and running, it is integrated with the rest of the VMware software stack. Some of the benefits to the new vSphere Client: Clean, consistent UI built on VMware’s new Clarity UI standards (to be adopted across our portfolio) Built on HTML5 so it is truly a cross-browser and cross-platform application.
For example, Virtual SAN can manage and work only with ESXi hosts and a single Virtual SAN instance can support only one cluster. The vSphere Client is built right into vCenter Server 6.5 (both Windows and Appliance) and is enabled by default. Virtual SAN introduces specific terms and definitions that are important to understand.Īlthough Virtual SAN shares many characteristics with traditional storage arrays, the overall behavior and function of Virtual SAN is different.
Xtravirt Presentation Pack As mentioned in the PowerPoint section above this presentation pack from the team at Xtravirt offers some pretty slick IT related PowerPoint and. Virtual SAN is implemented directly in the ESXi hypervisor. vEcoShell This small and basic Visio stencil set from the vEcoShell team cover most of the basic objects required for a very high level VMware vSphere Vision diagram. It virtualizes the local physical storage resources of ESXi hosts and turns them into pools of storage that can be divided and assigned to virtual machines and applications according to their quality of service requirements. VMware Virtual SAN uses a software-defined approach that creates shared storage for virtual machines. While supporting VMware features that require shared storage, such as HA, vMotion, and DRS, Virtual SAN eliminates the need for external shared storage and simplifies storage configuration and virtual machine provisioning activities. Virtual SAN aggregates local or direct-attached capacity devices of a host cluster and creates a single storage pool shared across all hosts in the Virtual SAN cluster. VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) is a distributed layer of software that runs natively as a part of the ESXi hypervisor.