vSAN for Horizon delivers radically simple and scalable storage for virtual desktops and applications, with superior performance and dramatically lower TCO.

All-Flash or Hybrid Architecture

vSAN can be used in all-flash architecture in which server-attached flash devices provide both caching and data persistence for extremely high and consistent levels of performance or in a hybrid configuration in which server-side flash devices are pooled to provide a read/write cache and server-attached HDDs provide data persistence. 

Single Pane of Glass Management

vSAN removes the need for training on specialized storage interfaces or the overhead of operating them. Provisioning is now as easy as two clicks. With VM-centric policy-based management and automated provisioning and balancing, every virtual desktop gets the storage resources it needs for consistently great performance. 

Granular Non-Disruptive Scale-Up or Scale-Out

Grow your desktop virtualization environment and non-disruptively expand the capacity of the vSAN datastore by adding hosts to a cluster (scale-out) to expand capacity and performance or disks to a host (scale-up) to add capacity or performance for desktops and apps. 

Hardware Independence

vSAN can be deployed on hardware from any server manufacturer, giving you the flexibility to build out customized storage systems in heterogeneous hardware environments. vSAN Ready Nodes offer pre-configured solutions certified to run vSAN, available from major OEM vendors. Or leverage VMware VCE VxRail or EVO SDDC, which offer an all-VMware solution from qualified partners