Virtual SAN enables the rapid provisioning of storage within VMware vCenter as part of virtual machine creation and deployment operations. Virtual SAN is a hybrid disk system that leverages both flash-based devices, to provide optimal performance, and magnetic disks, to provide capacity and persistent data storage.
This delivers enterprise performance and a resilient storage platform. The distributed datastore of Virtual SAN is an object-store file system that leverages the vSphere Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) framework to deliver application-centric storage services and capabilities that are centrally managed through vSphere virtual machine storage policies. This document focuses on the definitions, sizing guidelines, and characteristics of the Virtual SAN
