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ONTAP Select Virtual SAN

gmilazzoitag — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:16:10 GMT

Is there somebody that has knowkedge about «virtual SAN» software that underlies sDOT in ONTAP Select?
I don't think that NetApp has written something proprietary and the knowledge of a fine performing technology (i.e. StratoScale, IOScale, Starwind...) could be a strong point.
Or maybe is VSAN from VMware? In the FAQ I've read that the RC1 support VMware as hypervisor. What they mean? That I can run VMware on Select or that VMware ESXi is the hypervisor where sDOT runs?
Looking at this schema I should think that VSAN is below.

Re: ONTAP Select Virtual SAN

Naveenpusuluru — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:16:33 GMT

Are you talking about SAN configuration on Vserver in CDOT(NetApp cluster mode data ontap)....?

Re: ONTAP Select Virtual SAN

gmilazzoitag — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:26:50 GMT

No sorry. My question is wrong. I've just read the architecture guide and there's no virtual san below.

Just a DAS with RAID and VMFS as datastore. On this vmdk for Ontap Select...

Re: ONTAP Select Virtual SAN

gmilazzoitag — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:27:35 GMT

No. I was asking about storage architecture of the new Ontap Select.

Regards

Re: ONTAP Select Virtual SAN

SeanHatfield — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:35:50 GMT

Have a read through TR-4517: ONTAP Select Product Architecture and Best Practices

http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4517.pdf

Here's the datasheet:

http://www.netapp.com/us/media/ds-3769.pdf

And the product documentation:

http://mysupport.netapp.com/documentation/productlibrary/index.html?productID=62293