Automating JBOD vSAN Capacity Expansion Without Downtime

Introduction Scaling storage in VMware vSAN environments has traditionally been a manual, error-prone, and time-consuming process . As enterprises grow, the need to seamlessly expand storage capacity without impacting workloads becomes critical. This blog presents a fully automated, zero-downtime vSAN expansion framework using orchestration and infrastructure automation tools such as VMware Aria Orchestrator, Ansible, and Python , integrated with hardware platforms like HPE Synergy .