VMware and DataStax Unlock Big Data’s Potential

VMware and DataStax have collaborated to power big data environments using VMware's vSAN. This joint effort aims to provide operational simplicity, central management of storage, and cost savings for cloud-native customers. DataStax Enterprise is built on Apache Cassandra™ and uses a masterless architecture with data replication between nodes for availability. The Host-Affinity policy offers additional flexibility in configuring vSAN placement and replication specific to the deployed application while maintaining data locality with DataStax Enterprise compute. This solution provides benefits such as simplified visibility, lifecycle management, and consolidation of computing workloads. The collaboration results in a reference architecture that demonstrates performance consolidation, failure mitigation, and linear scaling using vSAN and DataStax together.