Storage Concepts in AVS
You can use Azure Storage resources to extend the storage capabilities of your private clouds. AVS provides a native, cluster-wide storage solution using VMware vSAN. The local storage from each host in a cluster is utilized in a vSAN data store, and data-at-rest encryption is enabled by default. To date, the vSAN storage is the fastest storage available in Azure today.
An all-flash VMware vSAN software-defined storage system is used as the storage in the AVS hyper-converged vSphere cluster. When utilizing AVS, the sophisticated software-defined storage solution vSAN offers provides several fantastic benefits.
Throughout this chapter, we will look at the following areas regarding AVS storage:
- vSAN clusters
- Fault tolerance and storage policies
- Configuring a storage policy
- Azure NetApp Files
Each cluster host’s local storage is claimed as a component of a vSAN data store. With a raw, per host, SSD-based capacity of 15.4...
