
Good post by Colm Keegan (thank you)
The expression, “everything old is new again”, certainly applies to the renewed interest in server-side storage. Due to the widespread adoption of server virtualization technology, internal server storage is once again being hailed as a simple way to bring performance closer to where virtualized applications reside – on the hypervisor.
Now with VMware’s recent launch of their VSAN offering, which utilizes server-side storage capacity configured across a network of clustered hypervisor nodes, this seems to add further validation to this methodology. While there are some instances where server-side storage adds value, there are also some drawbacks that need to be considered.
Read on here
Posted by rogerluethy on April 7, 2014
https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/the-problems-with-server-side-storage-like-vsan/