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Getting Started with VMware Virtual SAN

You're reading from   Getting Started with VMware Virtual SAN Build optimal, high-performance, and resilient software-defined storage on VSAN for your vSphere infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399252
Length 162 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cedric Rajendran Cedric Rajendran
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Software-defined Storage and VSAN FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Virtual SAN 3. Workload Profiling and Sizing 4. Getting Started with VSAN – Installation and Configuration 5. Truly Software-defined, Policy-based Management 6. Architecture Overview 7. Design Considerations and Guidelines 8. Troubleshooting and Monitoring Utilities for Virtual SAN 9. What's New in VSAN 6.0? Index

JBOD support


While VSAN continues to increase the scalability, there are hardware limitations with the amount of storage that can be added to server hardware, this specifically holds good with servers, that has very less or no local storage. VSAN 6.0 supports Just a Bunch Of Disks (JBODs). This implies that servers can have externally attached drive enclosures that can participate and contribute storage to a VSAN cluster.

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