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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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The list below highlights the key features of vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA):

Affordable Shared Storage

  • Turn internal server storage into fully virtualized, clustered, shared and Highly Available datastores at a lower cost than networked, external shared storage hardware
  • Create VSA clusters of up to three nodes

Easy Installation and Deployment

  • Use installation wizard to automate install and configure VSA, even on existing virtual environments
  • Run vCenter Server within VSA cluster
  • Add more storage capacity as you go and grow (add bigger and more hard disk drives as you go, including JBOD expansion)

Simplified and Centrally Managed IT Environment

  • Simplify your IT footprint – run your applications and use shared storage, all on existing servers
  • Centrally manage multiple VSA clusters from one vCenter Server Standard instance
  • Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot a VSA cluster via VSA Manager plug-in to vCenter Server

Storage Resilience Plus Availability

  • Enable continuous application availability (99.9 percent availability using High Availability)
  • Eliminate any single point of failure within IT environment via synchronous mirroring of datastores (VSA uses RAID 1 protection across servers and RAID 5/6/10 protection within each server)

Flexibility with Hardware-Based Storage Solutions

  • Use Storage vMotion to transfer VMs between VSA and shared storage hardware with no service disruption
  • Pool local disk drives within your servers to create additional shared storage, augmenting the capacity provided by your existing shared storage hardware

Hardware and Application Compatibility

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