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Introduction to vSAN

Introduction to vSAN - vSphere Tutorial

From the course: VMware vSphere 8 Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCTA-DCV) (1V0-21.20) Cert Prep

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Introduction to vSAN

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- [Rick] In this video, we'll begin to learn about the basic architecture of vSAN. And before we even get started, I just want to mention that we are going to focus on the original vSAN storage architecture here, and you can see this is the documentation for vSphere 8. I'll put a link to this documentation on your screen. So if you want to check this out, go ahead and use the link that you see here on your screen. And yeah, like I mentioned, we're going to focus in this video on the vSAN original storage architecture, which involves disk groups, and it involves cache and capacity devices. And if you don't know what those are, don't worry. We're about to cover it. There is a newer architecture called the vSAN Express Storage Architecture that we will cover in a different video. So I just want to clarify, this video is going to focus on the vSAN original storage architecture, and we'll start with the very most basic, the…

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