As a core building block for the software-defined data center (SDDC), VMware vSAN powers many industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. Its ascent into the cloud offers cloud providers increased agility and flexibility while lowering costs.



If you’re a cloud service provider with an older cloud pod that you want to migrate to a SDDC or are looking to build a multi-tenant environment, adopting vSAN is pretty much a no-brainer. Now that vSAN is in the cloud, expanding cloud storage on SDDCs is easier than ever. Still, you’ll want to know some basics about vSAN before blasting off into the clouds.

In the lightboard tutorial video below from Greg Kaffenberger, Sr. Systems Engineer, Cloud Service Providers at VMware, the benefits of deploying vSAN in your cloud – be it private, multi-tenant or hybrid – are explained in full detail. Greg also discusses the basic architecture of vSAN in the cloud for cloud service providers and how virtual machines (VMs) interact with vSAN.