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VMware vSAN

Overview

What is VMware vSAN?

VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud…

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Product Demos

VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO

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vSAN 6.7 U1 Quickstart Demo

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VMware vSAN 6.6 Demo

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Product Details

What is VMware vSAN?

VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. It enables users to scale compute and storage independently at petabyte scale via disaggregation for optimal resources utilization and lower costs.

VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.


VMware vSAN's additional features include:

  • Developer-Ready Infrastructure - Enables developers to consume storage to create apps at scale, while providing the governance admins need to manage the infrastructure for VMs and containers.
  • Integrated File Services - Provisions a file share with a single workflow, and vSAN can be used as a unified storage control plane for both block and file storage.
  • Stateful Services - The vSAN Data Persistence platform framework can be used to integrate cloud-native applications into the underlying virtual infrastructure.
  • Consistent Storage Policy-Based Management - Storage can be aligned with the application demands of 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+ - Transforms on-premises infrastructure with cloud-connected services that centralize management and enhance efficiency.

VMware vSAN Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of VMware vSAN are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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What to expect when deciding about vSAN

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 05, 2024
KM
Vetted Review
Verified User
VMware vSAN
3 years of experience
We have used vSAN to store our SQL databases. We have migrated them from an [all-flash] storage vendor and at the same time, we have migrated the SQL servers in active/passive clusters to [Always-On clusters]. Currently[,] we have 6 nodes for all our SQL production databases. We created an isolated cluster in vSAN so we [would] solve two main issues: SQL licenses (associated with hosts' CPUs) and storage [licenses] (associated with a storage box). We have [configured] different kinds of raids [(5, 6, and 10)] [depending] on each VM service.

VMware vSAN!!

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 25, 2023
VY
Vetted Review
VMware vSAN
4 years of experience
We recommend VMware vSAN to our customers , especially where the customer does not want to use any external storage. VMware vSAN combines all the storage of servers installed in a cluster and creates a unified storage pool for the applications running on those servers. This is basically a hyper-converged solution, which can be used by many customers efficiently to run their applications.

VMware vSAN review

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 17, 2023
EB
Vetted Review
Verified User
VMware vSAN
2 years of experience
We use VMware vSAN for our virtual production environment where we run the most of our business-critical applications. We are running multiple VMs off this setup. Our servers are located across 2 different buildings but data is transferred seamlessly. It's a different setup than we used before. It's nice to be able to just add more hardware to a server to increase performance.

Journey with vSAN

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 28, 2021
We use vSAN for our production environment where we run the business-critical services: ERP, VDI, HRM, EMAIL, Active Directory, DNS other in-house applications. We also have an iSCSI storage for the production environment with a few SATA disks. vSAN is built with 2xSSD and 4xSAS disks, with 2 disk groups on each host. This vSAN configuration gives us faster IOPS than the iSCSI storage we have. It reduces the cost of additional hardware, maintenance, and power consumption.

VMware vSAN and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 08, 2021
vSAN is a hyper-converged solution and it is easy to set up and meets various workload requirements with support for all-flash. It is integrated with all VMware products and so it helps to achieve Day0/Day1 operations seamlessly. It scale-out and scale-up very well and would be a good choice for many organizations.
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