VSAN was designed to be the best storage for your VMDKs.  But that might seem a limitation if you have a need to exposed file shares, or perhaps iSCSI targets.  That means running something else on top of VSAN.

One of the most powerful choices available today comes from our partner Nexenta.  In addition to rich functionality, they’ve got the extra mile and have done a nice integration with both VSAN and vSphere.

Cormac Hogan runs through the basics on his blog.