Carlos Soto is an award-winning reviewer and journalist with 20 years of experience covering technology and business within various sectors and industries. Virtualization software makes up the ...

VMware launched its virtual SAN (storage area network) in March 2014, allowing users to utilize storage within ESXi servers to partition their physical servers into virtual machines without the need ...

VMware has announced upgrades to its Virtual SAN (VSAN) functionality in the vSphere 6.5 virtualisation environment, with enhancements that include support for containers, physical servers via ...

This is the first entry in a five-part insideHPC guide series that explores networking with Dell EMC ready nodes. This post outlines how to network vSan ready nodes. Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are ...

When VMware launched vSAN Max in late 2023, it promised storage for VSphere with many of the benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), but without some of its more common limitations. With ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MinIO, a pioneer in high performance, Kubernetes-native object storage, today announced a significant expansion of its partnership with VMware, connecting MinIO ...

VMware is continuing its massive Kubernetes march with the launch today of new product releases for vSphere, vSAN, VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation injected with VMware Tanzu in a move to push ...

KIOXIA has this week announced its range of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage has been certified with VMware vSAN 7.0 certification, allowing the storage to be shared across connected hosts in a VMware ...

On Windows Server 2016 or 2019, how long has "chkdsk /r" taken on large volumes (>2 TB)? I'm thinking through the pros and cons between using NTFS on file servers and replicating the data using DFS, ...

So VSAN is a virtual SAN for storage. Ok, I get that at the most basic levels. If you can virtualize a server, or whole swaths of servers, why not a SAN? Except that's where I'm stumbling. Where is ...