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 ...

Bursting through to the mainstream in 2012, the last decade has seen VMware’s vSAN carve its place in the hyperconverged infrastructure market. Powered by the company’s Express Storage Architecture, ...

Broadcom’s takeover of virtualisation supplier VMware has brought changes to VMware’s product line-up and its licensing terms. VMware’s storage virtualisation technology – vSAN – is also affected.

Enterprises running VMware’s vSAN storage platform may have spent significantly more on hardware than necessary. The company has acknowledged that its long-standing sizing recommendations were based ...