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VMware announces general availability of VMware virtual SAN

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BANGALORE, INDIA: VMware Inc. announced the general availability of VMware Virtual SAN, VMware's first Software-Defined Storage product.

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Built directly into the VMware vSphere kernel, VMware Virtual SAN provides a new tier of hypervisor-converged storage. The software abstracts and pools internal magnetic disks and flash devices from industry-standard x86 servers to produce a high-performance and resilient shared datastore for virtual machines (VMs). According to internal benchmarks, VMware Virtual SAN performs:

* 2 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) on a read-only workload on a 32 node cluster; and,

* 640,000 IOPS on a mixed workload on a 32 node cluster.

VMware Virtual SAN simplifies storage provisioning and management while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) enabling a fundamentally more agile operational model.

VMware Virtual SAN provides the reliability and robustness of an enterprise storage system, and is highly resilient protecting against data loss in the event of any hardware failures. It is ideally suited for several use cases in virtual environments such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), test/development, and disaster recovery.