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Is vSAN license cheap or expensive per CPU sockets ?
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Is vSAN license cheap or expensive per CPU sockets ?

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per CPU socket (like most it not all VMware vSphere licenses)
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per CPU socket (like most it not all VMware vSphere licenses)

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Hi All,<br />
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I have a a few questions about vSan. &nbsp;In a 2 Host cluster with one witness host. Each host will have 4x 1.2TB SAS disks and 1x 480 SSD for read cache. What would be the size of the storage? Or is it up to me (hardware Raid,1,5,6...)<br />
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If i am using vSan am i also able to connect to an external storage array using iSCSI? The hosts will see the vSan storage and External Datastore?<br />
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Thanks in advanced.
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Hi All,

I have a a few questions about vSan.  In a 2 Host cluster with one witness host. Each host will have 4x 1.2TB SAS disks and 1x 480 SSD for read cache. What would be the size of the storage? Or is it up to me (hardware Raid,1,5,6...)

If i am using vSan am i also able to connect to an external storage array using iSCSI? The hosts will see the vSan storage and External Datastore?

Thanks in advanced.

vSan Questions

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

vsan

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.