Storage platform

Since 2014, VMware has also become a storage vendor with an interesting solution called vSAN—a software-based solution to build Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) systems. With more than 8,000 customers acquired in only a few years and lot of releases, vSAN is the HCI solution that is growing fastest.

But the interesting part is that vSAN is a native vSphere storage solution, that seamlessly extends local storage on each host, making a shared and resilient storage system, and creating a hyper-converged platform that simply works with most of the vSphere skills and all the existing tools, software solutions, and hardware platforms.

For more details about vSAN and HCI, see Chapter 7, Advanced Storage Management.