HOW VMWARE'S VSAN PROVIDES THE STORAGE COMPONENT FOR A HYPER-CONVERGED DATA CENTER
itnews | February 05, 2018
VMware's vSAN (virtual SAN) architecture is designed to be a significant step into software-defined-computing, where the vSAN component is responsible for providing software-defined storage.Previously, systems architecture was one server containing its own compute, operating system, networking and storage. Virtualization abstracted this so that more than one OS could run per server, if still bound by captive network functionality, and storage.