Product overview
This product provides VMware vSAN 8 Enterprise for Retail and Branch Offices. It is an enterprise storage virtualization solution designed for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), hybrid environments, and multi-cloud management.
Included features
VMware vSAN 8 Enterprise includes storage management, security, and infrastructure capabilities.
- Storage policy-based management.
- Virtual Distributed Switch.
- Cloud Native Storage (CNS) control plane.
- All-flash storage efficiency features.
- Deduplication and compression.
- VMware Aria Operations integration within vCenter.
- Software-defined data-at-rest encryption.
- Stretched clusters.
- VMware HCI Mesh.
- Data persistence platform for modern stateful services.
Infrastructure capabilities
vSAN provides tools for managing storage resources and supporting modern application environments.
- Extension of virtualization capabilities to storage through hyperconverged infrastructure.
- Integration with VMware tools and public cloud providers.
- Centralized visibility and alerts for vSAN infrastructure.
- Support for virtual machines and container-based applications through VMware Tanzu integration.
- Support for VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture™.