Enterprises may have over-bought vSAN hardware for years based on VMware’s flawed guidance

Enterprises may have over-bought vSAN hardware for years based on VMware’s flawed guidance

Enterprises running VMware’s vSAN storage platform may have spent significantly more on hardware than necessary. The company has acknowledged that its long-standing sizing recommendations were based on synthetic testing that did not reflect real-world conditions. VMware revealed that analysis of telemetry data from thousands of production vSAN clusters showed that “vSAN clusters use much less RAM than expected” and “may use fewer CPU resources t…