{"id":6066,"date":"2015-08-08T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T01:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vspherestorage.com\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2015-08-08T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T17:58:02","slug":"extending-your-vsphere-platform-with-virtual-san-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vspherestorage.com\/?p=6066","title":{"rendered":"Extending your vSphere platform with Virtual SAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extending your vSphere platform with Virtual SAN<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vmw.re\/1Iz63iO' target='_blank'><img src='https:\/\/d3utlhu53nfcwz.cloudfront.net\/171901\/cdnImage\/article\/e7f64869-6835-49ff-8a8f-51163b45d91e\/?size=Box320'><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href='http:\/\/vmw.re\/1Iz63iO' style='text-decoration: none;' target='_blank'>Extending your vSphere platform with Virtual SAN<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>21 July, 20154 Comments Over the last couple of months I\u2019ve spoken to many customers about Virtual SAN. What struck me during these conversations is how these customers spoke about Virtual SAN. In all cases when we start the conversation it starts with a conversation about what their environment used to looked like. What kind of storage they had. How it was configured, number of disks etc you name it. Of course we would discuss what kind of challenges they had with their legacy environment. 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