As part of vSphere 5.0 release VMware also announced the vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0 (VSA). The VSA allows customers to utilise the local disks within their ESXi hosts to provision a shared storage environment without an expensive SAN. So lets have a look at the top benefits of VSA to SMBs:
- 99.99% availability without shared storage hardware
- World Class datacentre capabilities for small environments such as HA, DRS & vMotion
- Simple deployment in minutes
- Supports up to 64TB of local storage on each ESXi host
