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$ soultec get solution/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan -o yaml$ soultec get solution/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan -o json$ soultec get solution/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan -o toml$ soultec get solution/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan -o xml$ python3 vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan.pyPS> ./vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan.ps1$ go run vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan.go$ node vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vmware-vsan.js

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What it is

body: | vSAN aggregates the disks attached locally to ESXi hosts into a single datastore. As software-defined storage it builds highly available storage for a vSphere cluster, managed from the vSphere client. Architecturally that is hyperconverged: compute, networking and storage in the same x86 servers rather than in separate tiers. - heading:

Management and use in VCF

body: | When choosing storage, much of the effort comes from the seam between two areas of responsibility. With vSAN the storage sits where the virtualization already sits and is managed from the same console. vSAN is also the intended storage for VMware Cloud Foundation, which largely settles the question inside a VCF estate. - heading:

What to watch

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Solution · VMware

VCF Storage

formerly vSAN

VVFVCF

The vendor calls it: VMware VCF Storage

The local disks in your ESXi hosts become one shared datastore. Storage managed in the vSphere client instead of in a second console.

VMware Pinnacle Partner

Topics Storage 2.36 Virtualization 1.42

Vendors VMware 0.98

04Services

06Posts

02Capabilities

315Corpus

photograph wantedA vSphere or VCF console on a real screen at soulTec: a cluster view, a running task, an inventory tree, so the reader should recognise the UI

What it is

vSAN aggregates the disks attached locally to ESXi hosts into a single datastore. As software-defined storage it builds highly available storage for a vSphere cluster, managed from the vSphere client.

Architecturally that is hyperconverged: compute, networking and storage in the same x86 servers rather than in separate tiers.

Management and use in VCF

When choosing storage, much of the effort comes from the seam between two areas of responsibility. With vSAN the storage sits where the virtualization already sits and is managed from the same console.

vSAN is also the intended storage for VMware Cloud Foundation, which largely settles the question inside a VCF estate.

What to watch

Hyperconvergence couples compute and capacity. Need only storage and you buy hosts with it; need only compute and you buy disks with it. Where that ratio is permanently lopsided a separate tier is cheaper, for example with dHCI.

Posts about it

vSAN Witness Appliance 9.0

15 Sep 2025

You have probably run into the same problem I did: a freshly deployed 9.0 Witness Appliance that ignores its configuration and reports an expired licence.

Storage 2.36 Cloud 1.92 +1

vSAN Snapshot Service Appliance for vSAN Data Protection

19 Feb 2025

VMware released with vSAN 8 Update 3 the data protection feature which enables based on the tremendous power of ESA's snapshotting engine an all new levels of data protection and agility.

Storage 2.36 Backup and Recovery 2.14

iSCSI Datastore Not Consumed

24 Jan 2024

On a customer project running current vSphere 8.0 U2, some hosts recognised their iSCSI devices but reported them as “not consumed”, so the ESXi host saw no iSCSI datastores at all.

Storage 2.36