Summary
In this chapter, we looked at the storage concepts for AVS. First, we looked at vSAN, which comprises the storage from each host in the cluster. We also looked at the different storage policies available for the vSAN storage.
Fault tolerance is critical to the AVS solution, and we looked at the options available and showed you when to choose one over the other.
At some point, a customer will need to expand their AVS data store. This can be done by adding additional nodes, which can be very costly. Another option is to extend the data store using a solution such as Azure NetApp Files. This is an excellent option that will enable a customer to have a high throughput disk system, which also comes at a reduced price point.
The next chapter will look at VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). SRM is a disaster recovery option from VMware that can be used to replicate from a primary AVS site to a secondary AVS site.
You will learn about the prerequisites needed to deploy...
