All-flash VSAN gaining speed

#VSAN became more flash-friendly with version 6.2 earlier this year, with data deduplication enabling customers to gain more usable capacity from their expensive flash media. That has prompted customers to use all-flash VSAN nodes for applications that demand significant performance. At #VMworld this week, Lee Caswell, VMware's vice president of storage and availability products, called VSAN "the fastest-growing product in the fastest-growing market in storage." He said VSAN is lining up 100 customers per week -- triple its growth rate from last year -- and now has 5,000 customers. Caswell said, with flash and hyper-converged, VSAN is bringing "the two biggest disrupters in the market together." It helps that storage and server vendors, such as VMware's parent company #EMC and EMC's new parent #DellTechnologies, sell hyper-converged systems running VSAN. EMC representatives said its VSAN-powered #VxRail has beaten internal sales forecasts since its February launch. Dell is among the partners who sell all-flash VSAN on Ready Node prepackaged hardware.

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