Get shared storage benefits without the shared storage cost and complexity. VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) transforms the local storage within your servers into a shared storage resource that runs your virtualized applications. VSA allows you to achieve business continuity and eliminates any single point of failure within your IT environment. With VSA, you can:
- Deploy and manage cost-effective software-based shared storage easily
- Get High Availability without shared storage hardware
- Enable business continuity protection for any small environment
- Find out what’s new in VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1
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Small environments without shared storage can enable High Availability and advanced vSphere features to achieve business continuity with VSA, which requires more hard disk drives but no shared storage hardware. VSA requires more hard disk drives since it mirrors your data across your servers, protecting your data even in the case of a server or network failure.
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance vs. Traditional IT Environment
Delivers High Availability and advanced vSphere features to small environments without shared storage hardware
Shared storage hardware is required to use High Availability and advanced vSphere features
The traditional approach to business continuity requires shared storage hardware, which includes storage server, software, and hard disk drives, and has a greater overall cost. The cost comparison chart to the right illustrates how VMware vSphere Storage Appliance is a cost-effective alternative to the traditional IT approach. In both environments, the customer typically runs 20-30 workloads on VMware vSphere Essentials Plus, has access to at least 3TB in capacity, and uses RAID 5 protection.
Summary of vSphere Storage Appliance Compared with Traditional IT Deployments
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For small environments that need a great business continuity solution that is:
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For rapidly growing organizations with evolving storage needs that need a solution to provide:
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