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Storage Concepts in AVS

You can use Azure Storage resources to extend the storage capabilities of your private clouds. AVS provides a native, cluster-wide storage solution using VMware vSAN. The local storage from each host in a cluster is utilized in a vSAN data store, and data-at-rest encryption is enabled by default. To date, the vSAN storage is the fastest storage available in Azure today.

An all-flash VMware vSAN software-defined storage system is used as the storage in the AVS hyper-converged vSphere cluster. When utilizing AVS, the sophisticated software-defined storage solution vSAN offers provides several fantastic benefits.

Throughout this chapter, we will look at the following areas regarding AVS storage:

  • vSAN clusters
  • Fault tolerance ...

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