Virtual SAN makes it possible.
These days, data is king. As business hustles to harness and intelligently leverage this data, storage-capacity needs continue to expand. Unfortunately, traditional storage solutions can’t keep pace, often posing challenges around scalability, cost, and beyond. In the face of such challenges, ask yourself these questions:
Do you face rigid infrastructure; siloed heterogeneous devices; high CapEx; expensive scaling; complex processes?
Can you easily scale up or scale out storage capacity at the pace that business demands?
A new approach to the software-defined data center has emerged to address these challenges. This approach, called hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), leverages the hypervisor to deliver compute and shared storage from a single x86 server platform. The software-driven architecture enables a building-block approach to storage with scale-out capabilities.
VMware Virtual SAN™ is the VMware software-defined solution for HCI that delivers enterprise-class, high-performance shared storage for VMware vSphere® virtual machines. It is fully integrated with the entire VMware stack and provides complete workflow interoperability built into the VMware vSphere® Web Client.
Make your job easier by simplifying storage provisioning and management for vSphere—deploy storage with just a few mouse clicks from the vSphere Web Client and enjoy native integration with the VMware stack.
Deploy on inexpensive industry-standard x86 server components to eliminate large, up-front investments and expand with predictable "grow-as-you-go" scaling to lower OpEx by eliminating siloed, purpose-built hardware.
Built on an optimised I/O data path in the hypervisor, Virtual SAN delivers up to 90K IOPS per host with all-flash and scales up to 64 hosts per cluster—a perfect match for virtual desktops, remote IT departments, and business-critical applications.
Virtual SAN delivers predictable, elastic, and non-disruptive scaling of storage and compute resources. Every Virtual SAN cluster can scale out one node at a time, or scale up by adding capacity to existing hosts, and can achieve over 8 PB of raw capacity.
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