At VMworld 2015, VMware Inc. announced its third release of Virtual San (VSAN), its software-defined storage (SDS) solution. VSAN provides high-performance and scalable storage for virtualized ...

If you add up all of the effects of these features, then an all-flash VSAN cluster now offers around a factor of 10X more data density at the 6.2 release level compared to the prior release, and that ...

And you see it in VMware’s vSphere flagship with the addition of Virtual SAN, a new capability built into the ESXi hypervisor that turns the direct-attached storage in vSphere cluster nodes into ...

VMware is continuing its massive Kubernetes march with the launch today of new product releases for vSphere, vSAN, VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation injected with VMware Tanzu in a move to push ...

VMware’s VSAN continues that progression by introducing the complexity necessary to divide virtual machines across multiple disks on multiple servers and enforce a range of storage policies on a ...

VMware has released VSAN 6.6, the most significant update to VMware's Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform since its initial release. VSAN 6.6 comes with more than twice as many new features ...

To that end, VMware has enabled easier setup of NSX Security from within the vSphere client and added an “easy button” workflow to vSAN that makes it simple to shut down an entire cluster in ...

Even before this launch, VSAN had quickly become the volume leader in the hyperconverged arena, blowing past upstart server-SAN cluster maker Nutanix, which got this whole market rolling when it ...

VMware launches new iteration of vSAN Max with up to 8.6PB of independently scalable storage, NSX gets a “+” as it unifies networks and Ransomware Recovery ups efficiency.

On the plus side, VSAN is going to have a lot more capacity than partners and customers were expecting. VMware will ship VSAN next week with capacity for 32 nodes, CTO Ben Fathi said in a webcast.

The vSAN software is built directly into the kernel of VMware vSphere, the company’s virtualization OS. “If you know how to manage vSphere, you already know how to manage Virtual SAN ...