VMware Inc. announced a raft of new products Monday, and one of the key ones was VSAN 6.0. The company put a unique spin on VSAN, and is differentiating it from other software-defined storage (SDS) ...

VMware launched its virtual SAN (storage area network) in March 2014, allowing users to utilize storage within ESXi servers to partition their physical servers into virtual machines without the need ...

VMware on Tuesday released its latest vSAN software-defined storage offering, calling it the first to include native hyper-converged infrastructure security. VMware vSAN 6.6 is also the first version ...

Has anyone replaced SAN storage hardware (EMC, Compellent, 3PAR, Nimble, etc.) with VMware's vSAN? Or are you using it in parallel in your environment? In your experience is the technology mature and ...

Being the first mover in establishing a new technology in the enterprise is important, but it is not more important than having a vast installed base and sales force peddling an existing and adjacent ...

VMware Tuesday made a major update to its vSAN software-defined software, including redesignating it as hyper-converged infrastructure. VMware vSAN 6.7, the latest iteration of the software, was ...

At VMworld 2015, VMware Inc. announced its third release of Virtual San (VSAN), its software-defined storage (SDS) solution. VSAN provides high-performance and scalable storage for virtualized ...

Virtualization specialist VMware has expanded functionality of its Virtual SAN software, adding two popular data reduction methods - compression and deduplication. According to VMware, the new ...

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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.

Storage area network (SAN) management is complicated, period. SANs have proven invaluable in enterprise storage deployment; however, administrators must frequently overcome scaling, managing and ...