Shared Storage Design for the Management Domain

The shared storage design includes the design for the principal storage in the management domain of VMware Cloud Foundation using vSAN and supplemental storage using NFS.

Follow these guidelines when designing shared storage for your environment.

• Optimize the storage design to meet the diverse needs of applications, services, administrators, and users.

• Strategically align business applications and the storage infrastructure to reduce costs, boost performance, improve availability, provide security, and enhance functionality.

• Provide multiple tiers of storage to match application data access to application requirements. 

• Design each tier of storage with different performance, capacity, and availability characteristics. Because not every application requires storage that is expensive, high-performance and highly available, designing different storage tiers reduces cost.