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Time to reassess the vSAN (blocksandfiles.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As IT leaders move away from VMware, they face a critical decision: do they stick with traditional storage architectures, or is now the time to finally unlock the full potential of an infrastructure that converges virtualization, storage, and networking technologies?

Early convergence efforts centered on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), where storage ran as a virtual machine under the hypervisor, commonly called a vSAN. While adoption has lagged behind traditional three-tier architectures, recent advancements have significantly improved vSAN, making it worth reconsidering by addressing past shortcomings.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The above is an ad, but it both open about it and technically interesting, if a bit repetitive.

I honestly had no idea a vSAN was primarily running on hidden storage VMs on the host. I thought the storage stack was as tightly integrated as networking/compute at the hypervisor level, so the light breakdown there was worth the read.