Innovate with VMware Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Transform Seamlessly with vSAN
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.
Reduce Costs
Achieve better price performance using the latest storage technology on industry-standard servers.
Enable Multi-cloud Management
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.
Maximize Flexibility
Unlock petabyte-scale disaggregation with vSAN Max, scaling storage independently to optimize resource utilization and drive down costs.
Meet vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture
vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture delivers the highest levels of performance and efficiency from your next-generation storage devices.
Optimized Performance
Boost performance on next-generation devices by up to 4x, without compromising space efficiency.
Supreme Efficiency
Lower storage TCO by up to 40% with enhanced data compression and adaptive storage efficiencies.
Heightened Resilience
Boost availability and meet higher SLA requirements through a new storage pool construct.
Agile Operations
Enjoy a consistent, intuitive management experience across all vSAN deployments and architectures.
Introducing vSAN Max
vSAN Max, powered by vSAN Express Storage Architecture, is a new optional vSAN deployment model delivering petabyte-scale disaggregated storage for vSphere. Scale storage independently from compute for added levels of flexibility to support all your workloads. The new vSAN Max offering will be licensed separately from existing vSAN editions.
Extreme Capacity & Performance
Scale up to 8.6 Petabytes and 3.6 million IOPS per cluster.
Maximum Scale
Scale-out up to 24 data nodes per cluster.
Cost Efficiency
Lower TCO of mission-critical databases by up to 30%.
Simple Operations
Manage all vSAN environments with a single interface.
vSAN Features
Extraordinary Efficiency at Cloud Scale
Scale compute and storage independently at petabyte scale via disaggregation for optimal resources utilization and lower costs.
Developer-Ready Infrastructure
Enable developers to seamlessly consume storage to create apps at scale, while providing the governance admins need to manage the infrastructure for VMs and containers.
Integrated File Services
Easily provision a file share with a single workflow, and use vSAN as a unified storage control plane for both block and file storage.
Powerful Stateful Services
Leverage the vSAN Data Persistence platform framework to integrate cloud-native applications into the underlying virtual infrastructure.
Consistent Storage Policy-Based Management
Align storage with the application demands of your VMs and container volumes. Define storage needs for a VM, volume or VMDK and let the software apply and enforce the requirements.
Cloud-Connection for vSAN+
Transform on-premises infrastructure with cloud-connected services that centralize management and enhance efficiency.
VMware Cross-Cloud Services
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts is a Cloud Infrastructure service of the Cross-Cloud services portfolio that delivers a managed cloud to your on-premises environment.
Business-Critical Applications
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.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Improve your user experience and get superior desktop and app performance at scale, with resources that precisely match your growth requirements.
Remote Offices and Branch Offices (ROBO)
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.
Disaster Recovery (DR)
Lower DR costs by using HCI servers, not instead of purpose-built storage arrays. Manage your DR site easily from the data center. Orchestrate and automate recovery by combining vSAN with VMware Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication.
Modern Applications
Run, monitor and manage storage for containers and virtual machines on the same platform. Cloud-native storage provides comprehensive data management for both stateless and stateful applications.
Business-Critical Apps
Business-Critical Applications
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.
VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Improve your user experience and get superior desktop and app performance at scale, with resources that precisely match your growth requirements.
Remote Offices
Remote Offices and Branch Offices (ROBO)
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.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery (DR)
Lower DR costs by using HCI servers, not instead of purpose-built storage arrays. Manage your DR site easily from the data center. Orchestrate and automate recovery by combining vSAN with VMware Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication.
Modern Applications
Modern Applications
Run, monitor and manage storage for containers and virtual machines on the same platform. Cloud-native storage provides comprehensive data management for both stateless and stateful applications.
Compare vSAN Editions
Compare vSAN Editions
vSAN+
Our premier HCI offering, with cloud-connected services that centralize management and enhance efficiency.
• Transform on-premises infrastructure with cloud integration
• Streamline maintenance and get centralized visibility
• Pay-as-you-grow subscription options
Standard
Best suited for hybrid environments with per-VM storage policies. Includes:
• Storage policy-based management
• Virtual distributed switch
• Cloud native storage (CNS) control plane
Advanced
Includes all the features of Standard, plus:
• All-flash space efficiency features
• Deduplication and compression
• VMware Aria Operations within vCenter
Enterprise
Includes all the features of Advanced, plus:
• Software-defined, data-at-rest encryption
• Stretched clusters
• 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 the features of Enterprise, plus:
• vRealize Operations 8 Advanced
Case Studies
“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.”
— Giovanni Govaerts, IT Manager
“With vSAN we now have consistent architecture and operations to transition to a multi-cloud environment in the future.”
— Steven West, System Administration Manager
“Deploying vSphere and vSAN got rid of the legacy three-tier architecture. We adopted a hyperconverged architecture, helping us reduce TCO by 15%.”
— Aket Dingal, Senior Vice President, Head of IT and CISO
Learn, Evaluate, Implement
Resources
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Blog
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FAQ
View common question and answers about vSAN.
TechZone
Take a technical deep dive into vSAN by exploring technical documentation, guides, and more on TechZone.
Learn About vSAN Express Storage Architecture
Learn how vSAN Express Storage Architecture optimizes performance and space efficiency of your next-generation storage devices.
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