What is vSAN and How Does It Work?

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In this video, CBT Nuggets trainer Keith Barker covers vSAN. A virtual Storage Area Network can simplify your storage tasks, enhance storage performance and increase your security. Plus, if you already use VMware technology, you can get enhanced functionality when you implement your vSAN inside a vSphere environment.
When running multiple ESXi hypervisor hosts, it's possible for each of them to contribute some of their locally attached disk storage to a vSAN. There are some specific requirements for a disk to be contributed, which Keith covers. But he also covers the general logic behind creating a vSAN, configuring one and maintaining it. Watch to get a quick explanation of the power the virtual Storage Area Networks can bring to your networks.
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[@1ndianRepublican]

Well explained 👍🏼

[@ziadfawzi]

Thank you so much.

[@smaksood]

Excellent

[@zeusuofm]

Great intro! What tool did you use to generate those graphics and fonts?

[@Sal0_o]

9000/10

[@f1re_w1re67]

Where's the next part at?

[@ronwatkins5775]

What's the definition of high-speed network? Are we talking 100Gbe or will 25Gbe work?

[@rohantadvi1358]

Sir can a device be searched using Mac address globally

[@cbtnuggets]

Hi Rohan, thank you for your question. Globally, you cannot search down for a MAC address, as it’s a primarily behind-the-scenes identifier on the network. More info on the relationship between MAC and IP addresses can be found here: www.cbtnuggets.com/blog/technology/networking/networking-basics-how-ip-and-mac-addresses-work

[@ryanm2109]

Good summary but you missed the third drive, the OS disk for the hypervisor

[@landon1167]

Ideally you would run your esxi off of a cheap internal SD card rather than a more pricey disk that uses up a drive space and has most of its storage capacity left wasted.

[@znuffie]

@@landon1167 that's no longer recommended by vmware in 7.x

[@macethorns1168]

@@landon1167 Actually, you'd ideally want your host to boot from SAN so your boot media is exactly as redundant as your other storage.

[@macethorns1168]

It sure sounds like each host is running a VM that's the equivalent of a controller in a storage array and those VMs are running in a cluster.