VMware’s vSAN storage virtualization product is widely used by manufacturers as well as in office environments.
Manufacturers typically need to support a variety of proprietary software and data that is not a good fit for running in the cloud. vSAN enables them to aggregate local or direct-attached storage devices to create a single storage pool shared across all hosts in a vSAN cluster.
To learn more about vSAN’s storage optimization capabilities, read the blog article “vSAN in Industrial Environments.”