Introduction VMware’s vSAN Max revolutionizes storage for vSphere clusters, offering disaggregated, petabyte-scale shared storage. Unlike traditional vSAN, vSAN Max leverages the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) for a fully distributed design. Here, data access isn’t bottlenecked by centralized I/O controllers.…
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This guide lays the foundation for a streamlined vSAN (VMware Virtual SAN) setup within a generic vSphere deployment. Here, we’ll assume you have one vCenter Server managing at least four ESXi hosts. Before diving into the configuration steps, let’s ensure…
Hello, With VMware vSphere 8, many important changes have been made to the vSAN architecture. In addition to the ESA architecture that comes with vSphere v8, v8 U2 introduced the vSAN MAX architecture, which provides significant enhancements for SDS/HCI platforms.…