VMware vSAN powers industry-leading Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solutions with a vSphere-native, high-performance architecture.
VMware powered hyper-converged infrastructure enables you to evolve without risk, reduce TCO, and scale to tomorrow. Here’s how:
Evolve Without Risk
- Extend vSphere to storage
- Deploy native HCI encryption
- Protect existing investments
Reduce TCO
- Use affordable, standard x86 servers
- Eliminate tedious storage operations
- Accelerate overall IT responsiveness
Scale to Tomorrow
- Use cutting-edge hardware technologies
- Prepare for any application or container
- Extend environment to VMware Cloud on AWS
Use Cases for vSAN
Business Critical Applications
Run your most critical business applications like Oracle, Exchange and SAP with enterprise reliability, security and performance. vSAN’s all-flash architecture can deliver 150K IOPS per node with sub millisecond latencies. More than 60% of our customers run their business-critical applications on vSAN. Learn more about vSAN and BCA testing in these reference architectures.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Reduce infrastructure costs by starting small and growing non-disruptively as your needs evolve. vSAN delivers high performance while lowering TCO over traditional storage arrays and allows IT to deliver desktop services to end users by running virtual machines on consolidated clusters in the data center. Learn more about VDI Workload testing in this evaluation paper.
Remote and Branch Office
Manage your remote and branch offices with little to no local IT staff. vSAN provides a simple, cost-effective, and highly available solution that can be centrally managed from the main data center. Customers can choose from vSAN’s flexible licensing of per VM or per CPU for greater flexibility and value. Learn more about vSAN for remote offices in this solution overview.
Disaster Recovery
Protect data, lower infrastructure costs and simplify disaster recovery (DR) operations and management in remote DR sites with little or no local IT staff. Combined with VMware Site Recovery Manager, vSAN and vSphere Replication can be used to orchestrate and automate the recovery of multiple virtual machines. Learn more about vSAN for DR in this solution overview.
SPOTLIGHT
VMware Debuts as a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
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Compare vSAN editions to find the best option for your VMware hyper-converged infrastructure environment.
- Standard Edition: Best suited for hybrid environments so customers can simplify and automate storage management with per-VM storage policies.
- Advanced Edition: Standard Edition plus all-flash space efficiency features (deduplication, compression and erasure coding) provides the most cost-efficient performance to customers invested in all-flash.
- Enterprise Edition: Advanced Edition plus software-defined, data-at-rest encryption and stretched clusters delivers greater hardware choice and cost savings to customers.
- Remote Office Branch Office Edition: vSAN for ROBO is best suited for remote locations with low consolidation ratios. It is sold as 25-VM packs based on vSAN Standard, Advanced or Enterprise Editions and is distributable across the different remote sites. It is limited to a maximum of 25 virtual machines per site.
- Desktop Edition: vSAN for Desktop provides a licensing option for VDI users. It is priced per concurrent user (CCU) in a VDI environment and sold in packs of 10 and 100 licenses. vSAN for Desktop is also included in the Horizon Advanced and Enterprise bundles which have the vSAN Advanced license.
- HCI Kits Edition: VMware HCI Kits offer one SKU for both vSAN and vSphere and provide the most cost-efficient and simplest way to adopt hyper-converged infrastructure powered by vSAN.
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GETTING STARTED
First, quickly learn about vSAN features and benefits
Next, test-drive the full technical capabilities of vSAN
Then size and deploy vSAN for your workload of choice
Finally, build a ReadyNode profile based on your specific needs
RESOURCES
Technical and business resources for vSAN help you at every stage, from evaluation to optimization. For additional storage and availability technical documents, visit StorageHub.