Hi,
What will be the purpose of VSA in SMB?
There are some article but it makes to how configure & Implement? Looking for some basic information.
Hello Nava,
VSA allow SMB to use the HA and vMotion and other VMware features that previously required the existing of a SAN.
Now with VSA, VMware allows its customers to get benefit of these features without having a SAN.
The below article is really intersting if you're looking for more information.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/19/vsa_virtual_filer/
Regards,
Mouhamad
I agree with Mouhamad. It gives companies who could not previosuly afford shared storage a means of having shared storage and thus utilizing some of the advanced features of vSphere
We actually have a use for these actually.
What level is the VSA available to SMBs? We don't necessarily need HA at a company we work with, we can switch the failed VM on on a second ESXi box by hand, what I do need is continously replicated storage between two ESXi hosts.
Can we do this with bare essentials? If so, sold.
Essentials plus would be a little bit of a hard sell for this though.
The VSA works with all levels of vSphere 5, but it *IS* a separate license.
Its not a 'replication' mechanism, but a shared storage mechanism that makes a host's local storage appear as shared (using some clever internal replication).
Basically, you install it on up to 3 hosts, and all 3 hosts can see 1 set of shared storage to use with HA, DRS, vMotion, etc.
Matt wrote:
The VSA works with all levels of vSphere 5, but it *IS* a separate license.
Its not a 'replication' mechanism, but a shared storage mechanism that makes a host's local storage appear as shared (using some clever internal replication).
Basically, you install it on up to 3 hosts, and all 3 hosts can see 1 set of shared storage to use with HA, DRS, vMotion, etc.
I haven't seen anything on this, what is the price like?
Pricing questions would have to go to your VMware rep. As a partner's employee (EMC) we aren't supposed to discuss it (because every company has their own pricing models, etc).
Troy Clavell wrote:
Thanks, seems like the VSA is kind of out of reach for one of our smaller projects (Requiring essentials plus out of the box makes it a bit expensive being as we're virtualizing only a handful of servers), and the fact that we can't start with one, and add on another VSA a few months down the road.
Hopefully they'll have those features in a future VSA release. That would really be invaluable to very small setups that want to get their feet wet and don't care about hot high availability and want a cold boot system they can crank by hand and save some money on.
I really do anticipate a whole flood of "VSA doesn't perform as good as my SAN" type posts here when vSphere 5 comes out
Josh26 wrote:
I really do anticipate a whole flood of "VSA doesn't perform as good as my SAN" type posts here when vSphere 5 comes out
In other news: The sky is blue, and vSphere 5 licensing still sucks.
The whining should be inversely proportional to how cheap it is.
Hi,
Maximum 3 hosts, Essential plus license!! And license cost is heavier than expected.
Hmm, nothing makes impressive.
nava_thulasi39 wrote:
Hi,
Maximum 3 hosts, Essential plus license!! And license cost is heavier than expected.
Hmm, nothing makes impressive.
Yeah, at the price I can get entry level SAN systems.
On top of that version 1.0 has so many limitations that it removes all flexibility the extra cost could justifty.