Product overview
This product provides VMware vSAN 8 Advanced for Retail and Branch Offices. It is an enterprise storage virtualization solution for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and hybrid cloud environments.
Included features
The Advanced Edition includes Standard Edition capabilities and additional storage efficiency features.
- All-flash storage efficiency features.
- Storage virtualization through VMware vSAN.
- Integration with VMware vSphere for unified compute and storage management.
- Support for HCI and hybrid cloud deployments.
Infrastructure capabilities
VMware vSAN provides tools for managing storage, applications, and cloud environments.
- Extension of virtualization capabilities to storage through a hyperconverged solution.
- Integration with existing VMware tools, hypervisors, and public cloud environments.
- Support for virtual machines and container-based applications through VMware Tanzu integration.
- Flexible deployment across OEM server providers and supported public cloud services.
- VMware HCI Mesh for flexible scaling of compute and storage resources.
Management features
The product includes capabilities for simplifying infrastructure operations and application management.
- Unified management of virtual machines and containers.
- Self-service capabilities for developers with administrative governance controls.
- Simplified deployment of new infrastructures and applications.