#114 - vSAN Storage Clusters with Kalyan Krishnaswamy!

About this episode

Duncan Epping invites Kalyan Krishnaswamy to discuss the adoption of vSAN Storage Clusters by Audi and new functionalities in vSAN.

Recently there was a big announcement about the adoption of vSAN Storage Clusters by Audi. All the reasons for me to invite Kalyan back to the show. During this episode, Kalyan not only discusses what was announced specifically with Audi, but also goes over some of the recently introduced functionality like vSAN traffic seperation, vSphere only clusters support for stretched with vSAN Storage Clusters, and much more. Some of the discussed papers and blogs: Audi case study: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/03/27/audi-introduces-smart-manufacturing-with-vcf-edge/ Lower requirements for vSAN: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/14/driving-down-storage-costs-with-lower-hardware-requirements-for-vsan/

People in this episode

Host: Duncan Epping

Guest: Kalyan Krishnaswamy

Topics covered

• vSAN Storage Clusters
• Audi case study
• vSphere clusters
• storage technology
• manufacturing technology

Keywords

• vSAN
• Audi
• Kalyan Krishnaswamy
• storage clusters
• vSphere
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Audi, VMware, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Edge

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