vSAN Cost-Effective Architecture (For Desktops, almost there for servers)
So my esteemed colleague, Andrew Harding , brought this to my attention and the idea has kind of blossomed. I thought it was rather clever approach to implementing VSAN in a cost effective manner. The current line of thinking w/ VSAN is that you buy each host w/ the exact same disk configuration. In this way, with each host purchase, you not only get capacity, but you get additional I/O and CPU/Memory performance. Disclaimer: Mac Mini's are completely unsupported by VMware, this is for illustration purposes only. There are a couple problems w/ this model: Additional vSphere license cost Additional VSAN license cost Additional Hardware SSD/Disk cost Being that VSAN does NOT attempt to keep VM storage data local to a host, you can augment your VSAN cluster w/ simple compute hosts that have no storage. Meaning, if you don't have storage capacity or I/O performance problems, you can simply add another host that does not participate in the VSAN for additional C...