From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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vSAN 6.7 vs. traditional storage arrays

vSAN 6.7 vs. traditional storage arrays - vSphere Tutorial

From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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vSAN 6.7 vs. traditional storage arrays

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- [Rick] In this video, we'll compare virtual machine storage using vSAN versus the traditional approach of purchasing a physical hardware storage array. And so let's start with the very basic elements of this. Here we see a diagram where on the left in purple, we've got a virtual machine, and just like memory, just like CPU, the virtual machine doesn't actually have physical storage hardware, it doesn't have physical CPUs, it doesn't have physical memory, it's accessing a shared resource. And for storage traditionally we've had something called a VMFS data store or maybe an NFS data store. So from the perspective of my Windows virtual machine here on the left, this VM needs to see the storage hardware, we'll give it a virtual SCSI controller, it will basically trick windows into thinking that it actually has a physical storage adapter by giving it a driver for a virtual SCSI controller. So here we see the virtual SCSI…

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