Overview

VMware vSAN powers industry-leading hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions with vSphere-native, flash-optimized storage for private and public cloud deployments. vSAN is a core building block for the Software-Defined Data Center. vSAN empowers you to accelerate your business by providing:

• Simple Evolution to Full Stack HCI

  • Native to your hypervisor and leading clouds

  • Use existing tools for compute, storage, networking and more

  • Protect and optimize current investments

• Broadest Flexibility

  • Certified solutions with your preferred vendor

  • Day one support of latest technologies

  • Unify resources under policy-based management

• Multi-Cloud Capabilities

  • Consistent operations from edge to core to cloud

  • Intrinsic security for data-at-rest and in-flight

  • Hundreds of public cloud providers

Use Cases for vSAN

• Business Critical Applications

• Remote and Branch Office

• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

• Disaster Recovery

​Compare vSAN editions to find the best option for your VMware hyperconverged 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 hyperconverged infrastructure powered by vSAN.

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