vSAN is capable of addressing up to 40 storage media devices per node. These devices can be organized in up to five disk groups, each containing at least one SSD device or flash card and at least one hard disk (hybrid configuration) or SSD device (all-flash configuration), up to a total of 7 devices.

The server configuration containing two SSDs and six 10k SAS drives uses the vSAN design of a single node as shown in the following figure. The storage media devices will be split equally into two disk groups, each containing an SSD and three SAS hard disk drives (HDDs).