Simplicity Across Clouds Is Rare
91% of executives are looking to improve “consistency across [their] public cloud environments."
Applications Need to Be Modernized
68% of developers want to expand use of modern application frameworks, APIs and services.
Distributed Work Models Are Here to Stay
72% of enterprise employees are working from non-traditional environments.
Security Is a Top-Down Concern
Risk related to security, data and privacy issues remains the #1 multi-cloud challenge.
Get on a Faster Path to Prod
Build and deploy quickly and securely on any public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.
Simplify Kubernetes Operations
Build and operate a secure, multi-cloud container infrastructure at scale.
Pair with App Development Experts
Unlock value by modernizing your existing apps and building innovative new products.
Build, run, secure, and manage all of your apps across any cloud with application modernization solutions and guidance from VMware.
11 Security Practices to Manage Container Lifecycle
Get recommended practices for DevSecOps teams that desire a more modern app methodology.
Connect and Run with Confidence
Reduce time-to-value, lower costs, and enhance security while modernizing your private and public cloud infrastructure.
Enhance Digital Experiences
Securely, reliably, and optimally connect applications in the cloud and at the edge to deliver unique experiences.
Run enterprise apps at scale with a consistent cloud infrastructure across public clouds, data centers and edge environments.
VMware Research: Multi-Cloud Strategies
Learn why enterprises find multi-cloud strategies critical for success.
Deliver an Engaging Experience
Put employees first with device choice, flexibility, and seamless, consistent, high-quality experiences.
Secure Today’s Anywhere Workspace
Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.
Automate the Workspace
Manage to outcomes — not tasks — with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.
Enable any employee to work from anywhere, anytime with seamless employee experiences.
Remote Work Is No Longer Optional
Shift from supporting remote work to becoming an anywhere organization.
Secure & Connect Workloads
Operationalize consistent security and networking across apps, users, and entities with transparency built into our tools.
Protect APIs — the New Endpoints
Increase app velocity and centrally manage, secure, connect, and govern your clusters no matter where they reside.
Be Future-Ready
Get built-in threat intelligence spanning users, endpoints and networks to evolve your protection in a dynamic landscape.
Deliver security and networking as a built-in distributed service across users, apps, devices, and workloads in any cloud.
Protect Your Multi-Cloud Environments
Discover the unique characteristics of malware and how to stay ahead of attacks.
Work with a VMware Partner
Partners deliver outcomes with their expertise and VMware technology, creating exceptional value for our mutual customers.
Become a Partner
Together with our partners, VMware is building the new multi-cloud ecosystem positioned to become essential to our customers.
With thousands of partners worldwide, we are positioned to help customers scale their business, drive innovation and transform their customer experience.
Working Together with Partners for Customer Success
See how we work with a global partner to help companies prepare for multi-cloud.
See why Gartner named VMware as a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure for the fifth time in a row, with the top rank for Completeness of Vision.
The sessions, experts, labs and experiences you love and more from the center of the multi-cloud universe.
Using your current VMware tools, extend virtualization to storage with our secure hyperconverged solution – built to integrate with your hypervisor and leading public cloud providers.
Enhance IT productivity with centralized visibility and alerts for your vSAN infrastructure from a single cloud console, and manage virtual machine and container-based applications seamlessly with VMware Tanzu integration.
Get better price per performance using the latest storage technology on industry-standard servers.
Optimize performance of next-generation storage devices with vSAN Express Storage Architecture™, while protecting your investment in existing tools and processes.
Boost performance on next-generation devices by up to 4x, without compromising space efficiency.
Lower storage TCO by up to 40% with enhanced data compression and adaptive storage efficiencies.
Boost availability and meet higher SLA requirements through a new storage pool construct.
Enjoy a consistent, intuitive management experience across all vSAN deployments and architectures.
Scale compute and storage to meet your application needs efficiently and flexibly with VMware HCI Mesh.
Roll out new infrastructure and applications easily, with minimal training.
Get the self-service capabilities developers need to create apps at scale, plus the governance IT admins need to manage VMs and containers.
Pay-as-you-grow subscription options help you simplify and manage costs.
Shrink infrastructure maintenance windows with one-click updates.
Track global inventory, centrally provision VMs, and view alerts from a single cloud management console.
Achieve high performance for your most vital apps—up to 150k IOPS per node. Expedite deployment with highly automated processes and reduce storage costs compared to legacy storage solutions.
Improve your user experience, and get superior desktop and app performance at scale, with resources that precisely match your growth requirements.
Boost local IT performance by managing it from your data center. Start with a small physical footprint of just two nodes and expand as needed. Control costs with flexible licensing models.
Lower DR costs by using HCI servers instead of purpose-built storage arrays. Manage your DR site easily from your data center. Orchestrate and automate recovery by combining vSAN with VMware Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication.
Run, monitor and manage storage for containers and virtual machines on the same platform. Cloud-native storage in vSphere and vSAN provides comprehensive data management for both stateless and stateful applications.
As an IT manager of an SMB … we were looking for a user-friendly solution that is easy to manage. That’s why we choose VMware vSAN.
With vSAN we now have consistent architecture and operations to transition to a multi-cloud environment in the future.
Deploying vSphere and vSAN got rid of the legacy three-tier architecture. We can now adopt a simplified hyperconverged scalable architecture, which helped us reduce TCO.
Here’s how customers use vSAN to simplify data center operations and lower CapEx.
Learn how vSAN reduces total cost of ownership by more than 45% with capital and operational savings.
Take a deep dive into vSAN: View reference architectures, design guides, operations guides and other insider insights.
Learn how vSAN Express Storage Architecture optimizes performance and space efficiency of your next-generation storage devices.
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 and efficient capacity management to transform data centers into a simple, unified cloud operating system
Our premier HCI offering, with cloud-connected services that centralize management and enhance efficiency
vSAN benefits include:
A vSAN cluster needs at least two physical hosts, with dedicated local storage devices and shared witness. For more information, see VMware Compatibility Guide for Systems/Servers and VMware Compatibility Guide for vSAN.
vSAN is integrated with the VMware vSphere Hypervisor: unlike other solutions, there’s no need to install additional software or deploy storage controller virtual appliances to every host in the cluster. To configure and manage a vSAN cluster, only vCenter Server is required.
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. This data can be used with the vSAN ReadyNode Sizer to determine suitable vSAN ReadyNode server configurations.
You can increase storage capacity in a couple of ways: 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 vSAN deployment options: 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.
vSAN+ is the premier HCI offering, delivering the cloud connected services IT to centralize management and enhance efficiency. vSAN+ is offered as a subscription.
Yes, subject to standard market restrictions due to export controls and/or sanctions.
vSAN Express Storage Architecture is an optional next-generation architecture built into vSAN to deliver the highest levels of performance and efficiency from your NVMe storage devices.
