VMware's Project Magna applies machine learning to automate the data centre – Blocks and Files

VMware is developing a cloud service to monitor software in customer deployments and tune it automatically to improve performance. This is Project Magna and its first target is vSAN in hyperconverged infrastructure. It will work like this: customers select their key performance indicator – read or write optimisation or both. Magna examines their vSAN environment and compares it to the KPI average for stored and monitored deployments. If the site is below average, Magna changes it to bring it closer to the average.