Software Defined Storage; A Storage Architecture That Separates Storage Software from Its Hardware
Software-defined storage is a way of virtually separating storage software from their hardware. It is an approach to data management in which data storage resources are abstracted from the underlying physical storage hardware and are therefore more flexible. The software is a layer between physical storage and data requests which helps the user to control the storage requests. This means that the user can manipulate where and how the data is stored. With SDS, the software can control the entire computing infrastructure without human intervention.
Software-defined storage (SDS) is the system of abstracting data storage so that the
provision and management of storage are separated from the underlying hardware.
It allows separate pools of physical storage resources to be managed together
as a single logical device. SDS is not cloud computing. Software
Defined Storage helps feed data into the cloud to provide unified storage.
However, the system does have cloud storage features, such as scalability,
networked access management, and automation.
Unlike
traditional Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems,
SDS is generally designed to perform on any industry-standard or x86 system
that removes the software’s dependence on the proprietary hardware. Moreover,
SDS enables both organizations and users to uncouple or abstract storage
resources from the underlying hardware platform for greater efficiency,
flexibility, and faster scalability by making storage resources programmable. SDS
offers many benefits, thus, the demand for SDS has increased.
According
to VMware (a U.S.-based cloud computing and virtualization Technology Company), over
15,000 customers have deployed vSAN, its software-defined storage solution. vSAN
uses a software-defined approach to create shared storage for virtual machines.
It comes in multiple editions to support a wide range of use cases. It runs on
any industry-standard x86 server and is especially well suited for hyper-converged
infrastructure.
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