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Andrew,<br />
Thank you for the quick reply.<br />
If I understood correctly, for the SAN ROBO, we need at least three ESXI hosts with SSD and HDD, am I correct?
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Andrew,
Thank you for the quick reply.
If I understood correctly, for the SAN ROBO, we need at least three ESXI hosts with SSD and HDD, am I correct?

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only 2 ESXi hosts required.
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We have a small remote office and want to set up a VMware solution to run about five servers. The maximum storage would be 3 TB. The system should be highly available. I only know about the shared storage, and ESXi hosts which will do the &nbsp;HA.<br />
A colleague of mine asked me to look for a vSAN solution. &nbsp;Experts out there, you might have implemented a vSAN solution?<br />
Would you recommend me to go in that direction instead of purchasing multiple ESXi hosts and shared storage?<br />
We have HQ with VMware fracture. Is it possible for us to buy two ESXi hosts with local storage and use the Witness server as a VM from HQ?
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We have a small remote office and want to set up a VMware solution to run about five servers. The maximum storage would be 3 TB. The system should be highly available. I only know about the shared storage, and ESXi hosts which will do the  HA.
A colleague of mine asked me to look for a vSAN solution.  Experts out there, you might have implemented a vSAN solution?
Would you recommend me to go in that direction instead of purchasing multiple ESXi hosts and shared storage?
We have HQ with VMware fracture. Is it possible for us to buy two ESXi hosts with local storage and use the Witness server as a VM from HQ?

2-Node 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.