Here are my notes for 2VB-601.  These notes I took to help me prepare for the exam as I went through the Deploy and Manage VSAN course, and through the recommended documentation.  Often, if I already knew the info, I didn’t necessarily put it in my notes.

Hope these help!

• Lifespans of SSD drives
• SLC
• 100,000 writes
• MLC
• 3000-10000 writes
• TLC
• 1000 writes
• eMLC
• 20,000-30,000 writes
• NVMe
• Specification developed specifically for SSDs, more parallelism, better performance
• 3D Cross Point
• PCIe NVMe cards
• Improved even more on performance
• HDDs
• Slower but higher capacity than SSDs
• 15K, 10K, 7.2K RPM drives, higher = better latency

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