Addressing Management & Budget

Storage Virtual Appliances unlock the resources of the ESX server and provide a virtual SAN that enables datastores to be shared. By leveraging an available virtual machine, SVAs provide a shared storage environment without having to install a complex shared storage system.

• Storage Virtual Appliance (SVA)
• Storage appliance software running under VMware ESX® as a virtual machine
• SVA takes control of and virtualizes Direct Attached Storage (DAS), for example internal disk drives and/or externally attached array
• Presents it to VMware ESX over iSCSI as a virtual SAN
• This fully enables all features which normally require an expensive external SAN
• High Availability, VMotion
• Dramatically lowers the cost of deploying a server virtualization environment
• Traditionally you would purchase 2-3 physical servers, then have expense of purchasing SAN storage
• Now you can have a SAN using the server’s internal storage!