Vsa Storage | [work]

Instead of buying a $20,000 physical SAN (Storage Area Network) or NAS (Network Attached Storage) box, you deploy a VSA as a VM on your existing VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or KVM hypervisor. This VSA aggregates the direct-attached storage (DAS)—the physical hard drives or SSDs inside your server nodes—and presents it back to the network as a highly available, shared storage pool.

A VSA intervenes by capturing those local disks. It "consumes" the physical disks (or partitions of them) and presents them back to the hypervisor as a networked storage resource (usually via NFS or iSCSI). vsa storage

Traditional SANs require proprietary hardware, specialized cooling, and expensive support contracts. VSAs use commodity hardware. You buy standard x86 servers with large internal disks. The "brains" are the software license. For SMBs, the difference can be 60-70% lower capital expenditure (CAPEX). Instead of buying a $20,000 physical SAN (Storage