LeftHand Networks'Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) opens the door for SMB and remote office sites to create and manage a secure, cost-effective, and fail-safe iSCSI SAN by simply leveraging existing direct attached storage (DAS) on ESX Servers.

Beyond providing an iSCSI SAN that ESX servers and any other clients can leverage, the LeftHand Networks Virtual SAN Appliance creates a highly automated SAN that imposes very little management overhead. Through the creation of a management hierarchy to virtualize resources and an automation scheme within that hierarchy, SAN/IQ creates a high-availability scenario that can easily be managed by system administrators in a small business' IT environment or via a lights-out management hardware located at a remote branch office.