New Technical White Paper - VMware vSAN Network Design

vSAN is a hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage solution for the software-defined data center. It is the first policy-driven storage product designed for VMware vSphere environments that simplifies and streamlines storage provisioning and management.

vSAN is a distributed, shared storage solution that enables the rapid provisioning of storage within VMware vCenter Server as part of virtual machine creation and deployment operations.

vSAN requires a correctly configured network for virtual machine I/O as well as communication among cluster nodes. Since the majority of virtual machine I/O travels the network due to the distributed storage architecture, highly performing and available network configuration is critical to a successful vSAN deployment.


This paper gives a technology overview of vSAN network requirements and provides vSAN network design and configuration best practices for deploying a highly available and scalable vSAN solution.