EMC’s Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware is designed to be used in production. Nexenta’s NexentaStor is a NAS product built on ZFS that can connect to other virtual machines. The product can serve up NFS, CIFS, Fibre or iSCSI connectivity to connected standalone servers that need capacity. In the next entry we will look at what the future holds for virtual appliances and how that may change the way you buy storage in the future. Follow us on Twitter: http://www.storageswiss.com/storrieswiss.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/storage-as-a-virtual-machine-details—part-two