Product overview
VMware vSAN 8 Advanced is a storage virtualization solution for VMware environments. The Advanced edition includes the features of the Standard edition together with all-flash space efficiency capabilities, providing software-defined storage for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and hybrid cloud deployments.
Product characteristics
The software integrates storage and compute management within VMware vSphere and supports scalable virtualized infrastructure.
- Storage virtualization platform for VMware environments.
- Advanced edition includes all Standard edition features.
- Includes all-flash space efficiency features.
- Supports hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) deployments.
- Integrates with VMware vSphere for unified management of compute and storage resources.
- Supports flexible scaling of compute and storage based on workload requirements.
- Designed to simplify infrastructure deployment and ongoing management.
- Supports virtual machine and container-based workloads through integration with VMware Tanzu.
- Compatible with industry-standard server hardware and hybrid cloud environments.
- Supports deployment across VMware-compatible environments and major public cloud platforms.