At VMworld 2013, VMware announced the public beta of its Software-defined Storage platform Virtual SAN. Today at the VMware NOW - Virtual SAN Special Online Event the final release date for Virtual SAN 1.0 was announced. Virtual SAN will be released in a few days, together with vSphere 5.5 Update 1. Unfortunately, there are still no pricing information.
Facts from VMware NOW - Virtual SAN Special Online Event
- Virtual SAN 1.0 GA is going to be released next week (Starting 10th of March)
- VSAN will be released with vSphere 5.5 Update 1
- VSAN will be fully supported and can be used in production
- The cluster size has been increased to 32 hosts, which is the well-known vSphere cluster limit
- Benchmarks have reached 2 Million IOPS (32 node Cluster)
- VSAN can scale up to 4.4 PB (35 disks x 32 hosts)
- VSAN supports 3200 Virtual Machines
- VSAN supports VMware Horizon
- VSAN supports vSphere Replication
- VSAN supports vSphere Data Protection
- Server platforms from HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu and Cisco are certified with VSAN
Pricing
There were no information about pricing or licensing at VMware NOW.
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