Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure company VMware unveiled VMware Virtual SAN, the company's first software-defined storage product.
"Today VMware changes the way that storage has been operated to date," says Ravi Bhat, regional director at VMware sub-Saharan Africa. "VMware Virtual SAN is a radically simple storage solution optimised for virtual environments, which brings an application-centric approach to storage management."
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).
According to VMware, the offering simplifies storage provisioning and management while reducing total cost of ownership, enabling a fundamentally more agile operational model. VMware Virtual SAN also provides the reliability and robustness of an enterprise storage system, and is highly resilient, protecting against data loss in the event of any hardware failures.
The company also states that embedded within the VMware vSphere kernel, VMware Virtual SAN delivers the most efficient data path for superior performance while minimising resource utilisation resulting in the consumption of less than 10% of CPU resources.
VMware Virtual SAN uses flash to deliver performance acceleration through read/write caching, states a company statement. The software provides a granular and elastic approach to provision performance and capacity enabling customers to linearly scale their clusters on demand by adding nodes to a cluster or disks to individual nodes.
"Customers that know VMware vSphere know VMware Virtual SAN, and can rely on that familiarity to hit the ground running with VMware Virtual SAN," concludes Bhat.
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