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Decouple storage intelligence from hardware. Run storage services (replication, tiering, snapshots) on commodity servers. Examples: VMware vSAN, NetApp ONTAP Select, MinIO.
Benefits: avoid vendor lock-in, scale compute and storage independently, use cloud or on-prem hardware. The control plane manages pools of storage across physical devices.
