In October 2004, the Technical Committee T11 of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards approved VSAN technology to become a standard of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
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A VSAN, like each FC fabric, can offer different high-level protocols such as FCP, FCIP, FICON, iSCSI.
VSAN VMware's Virtual SAN technology, utilising local storage inside a host ESXi server to build a virtual SAN