Unlock the value of any cloud and accelerate the delivery of modern applications with VMware Cloud.
Accelerate modern app operations with network and security virtualization for WAN, data center and cloud.
Enable any employee to work anywhere, anytime with seamless employee experiences.
Leverage your infrastructure across any app, any cloud and any device for intrinsic security at every layer.
Explore tailored solutions for your application framework, cloud infrastructure and security architecture.
Build, run, manage, connect and protect all of your apps, anywhere with a digital foundation built on VMware.
Extend virtualization to storage with a secure hyperconverged solution that leverages existing tools and is integrated with your hypervisor and leading public clouds.
Manage both virtual machine and container-based applications seamlessly, through integration with VMware Tanzu.
Achieve better price per performance by supporting the latest storage technology on industry-standard servers.
Use HCI anywhere with the industry’s broadest ecosystem: 18 OEM server vendors and native services with leading public clouds including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.
Scale compute and storage flexibly and efficiently based on application needs with VMware HCI Mesh.
Easily roll out new infrastructure and applications with minimal training.
Get self-service capabilities that developers need to create apps at scale, while providing IT admins the governance needed to manage VMs and containers.
Achieve high performance for your most critical apps—up to 150k IOPS per node. Expedite deployment with highly automated processes and reduce costs compared to legacy storage solutions.
Get superior desktop and app performance at scale and improve the user experience. Precisely match resources to your growth requirements.
Increase local IT performance while managing from your data center. Start with a small physical footprint—just two nodes—and expand as needed. Control costs with flexible licensing models.
Lower DR costs with HCI servers instead of purpose-built storage arrays. Manage your DR site easily from your data center. Orchestrate and automate recovery by combining with VMware Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication.
Business Critical Apps
VDI
Remote & Branch Offices
Disaster Recovery
When comparing latency numbers on vSAN versus our previous storage array, we’re actually seeing a 20% performance improvement overall.
Moving to a hyperconverged and cloud infrastructure in one year, we’ve reduced [costs] by multiple, multiple millions.
From an operational point of view, VMware vSAN’s common set of management tools make day-to-day administration much simpler. Convergence and simplicity are critical.
Understand why customers are choosing vSAN to simplify data center operations and lower CapEx.
Learn how to build on your technology investments and future-proof your infrastructure environments.
VMware continues to be a Magic Quadrant Leader in Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software.
Server virtualization software
Full-stack network and security virtualization
Portfolio of products for hybrid cloud management
Hybrid cloud platform
Best suited for hybrid environments with per-VM storage policies.
Standard Edition plus all-flash space efficiency features.
Advanced Edition plus software-defined, data-at-rest encryption and stretched clusters.
Advanced management for performance optimization, efficient capacity management and more.
vSAN benefits include:
A vSAN cluster needs at least two physical hosts with dedicated local storage devices and shared witness. See the VMware Compatibility Guide for Systems/Servers and VMware Compatibility Guide for vSAN for more information.
vSAN is integrated with the VMware vSphere Hypervisor, so there’s no need to install additional software or deploy storage controller virtual appliances to every host in the cluster, as is often the case. Only vCenter Server is required to configure and manage a vSAN cluster.
Yes, vSphere can access and use traditional datastores with vSAN and vSphere Virtual Volumes. In most cases, vSphere Storage vMotion can be used to migrate VMs between these datastore types. This makes it easy to migrate existing workloads when performing maintenance or retiring a storage solution.
To evaluate an existing environment for migration to vSAN, request a free HCI assessment. Data collected can be used along with the vSAN ReadyNode Sizer to help determine suitable vSAN ReadyNode server configurations.
Storage capacity can be increased in a couple ways: either scale-out your clusters by adding nodes, or scale-up existing nodes by adding capacity. Cluster Quickstart makes it easy to add compute and storage capacity to a vSAN cluster.
There are four deployment options available for vSAN: a jointly engineered turnkey system, Global Partner Appliances, vSAN ReadyNodes, and as a service with cloud providers. See vSAN deployment options for more information.
For detailed guidance on enabling vSAN, see vSAN documentation.
For step by step instructions on configuring a vSAN cluster, see vSAN documentation.
vSAN ReadyNodes are x86 servers that have been pre-configured, tested and certified for VMware HCI software. Each ReadyNode is optimally configured for vSAN with the required amount of CPU, memory, network, I/O controllers and storage. For more information, see vSAN ReadyNodes.
