VMware vSan 8

VMware vSan 8: Hyperconvergence for a revolutionized storage experience

Reduce storage costs and complexity with VMware vSAN, enterprise-class storage virtualization software for the easiest path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi-cloud.

Innovate with VMware Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Seamless transformation with vSAN: Leverage your existing VMware tools to extend virtualization capabilities to storage with our secure hyperconverged solution designed to integrate with your hypervisor and solutions from leading public cloud providers.

Lower costs

Achieve better price/performance by leveraging the latest storage technology on industry-standard servers.

Multi-cloud management

Improve IT productivity with centralized visibility and notifications into your vSAN infrastructure from a single cloud console. Seamlessly manage both VM and container-based applications with VMware Tanzu integration.

Maximum flexibility

vSAN Max offers disaggregation in the petabyte range. This allows you to scale storage independently to optimize resource utilization and reduce costs.

vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture

vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture delivers the highest levels of performance and efficiency for your next-generation storageDevices.

• Optimized performance: Increase performance on next-generation devices by up to 4x without sacrificing storage efficiency.
• Best-in-class efficiency: Reduce storage TCO by up to 40% with improved data compression and adaptive storage efficiency.
• Greater resilience: Increase availability and meet higher SLA requirements with a new storage pool construct.
• Agile operations: Achieve a consistent, intuitive management experience across all vSAN deployments and architectures.

Introduction to vSAN Max

vSAN Max powered by vSAN Express Storage Architecture is a new optional vSAN deployment model that provides petabyte-scale disaggregated storage for vSphere. Scale storage independently of compute to increase flexibility to support all your workloads. The new vSAN Max offering is licensed separately from existing vSAN Editions.

• Ultimate capacity and performance: Scale vertically up to 8.6 petabytes and 3.6 million IOPS per cluster.
• Maximum scaling: Scale horizontally up to 24 data nodes per cluster.
• Cost efficiency: Reduce the TCO for mission-critical databases by up to 30%.
• Simple operation: Manage all vSAN environments via a central interface.

vSAN features

• Exceptional cloud-level efficiency: Use disaggregation to scale compute and storage independently at petabyte scale, optimizing resource utilization and reducing costs.
• Developer-centric infrastructure: Developers can seamlessly use storage to build applications at scale, and administrators have the governance they need to manage VM and container infrastructures.
• Integrated file services: Easily provision file shares with a single workflow and use vSAN as a unified storage control plane for block and file storage.
• Powerful stateful services: Leverage the vSAN Data Persistence platform framework to integrate cloud-native applications into the underlying virtual infrastructure.
• Unified policy-based storage management: Tailor storage to the application requirements of your VMs and container volumes. Define storage needs for VMs, volumes or VMDKs and let the software apply and enforce the appropriate requirements.
• Cloud connectivity for vSAN+: Transform on-premises infrastructures with cloud-based services that centralize management and improve efficiency.

vSAN Editions in comparison

Standard

• Policy-based storage management
• Virtual distributed switch
• Control plane for cloud-native storage (CNS)

Advanced

Includes all Standard Edition features plus:

• All-flash functions for storage space efficiency
• Deduplication and compression
• VMware Aria Operations in vCenter

Enterprise

Includes all Advanced Edition features plus:

• Software-defined encryption of data at rest
• Stretched Cluster
• VMware HCI Mesh
• Data persistence platform for modern stateful services

Enterprise Plus

Advanced management for performance optimization and efficient capacity management to transform data centers into a simple, unified cloud operating system. Includes all Enterprise Edition features plus:

• VMware Aria Operations 8 Advanced