Product overview
VMware vSAN 8 Advanced is storage virtualization software designed for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and hybrid cloud environments.
The Advanced edition includes features for managing virtualized storage environments, including:
- All-flash storage efficiency features
- Storage policy-based management
- Virtual Distributed Switch
- Cloud Native Storage (CNS) control plane
- Deduplication and compression
- VMware Aria operations within vCenter
- Software-defined data-at-rest encryption
- Stretched clusters
- VMware HCI Mesh
- Data persistence platform for modern stateful services
Product characteristics
VMware vSAN provides centralized storage management through an integrated HCI platform with vSphere.
The product supports:
- Extension of virtualization capabilities to storage
- Management of virtual machines and container-based applications through VMware Tanzu integration
- Flexible deployment across supported infrastructure environments
- Scaling of computing power and storage based on application requirements
- Management through VMware HCI Mesh