Product overview
VMware vSAN 8 Enterprise for Desktop is a software-defined storage solution for VMware environments. It provides advanced storage virtualization capabilities for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), enabling centralized storage management through policy-based administration and support for virtual machine and container workloads.
Included features
This edition includes the following functionality:
- Storage policy-based management.
- Virtual Distributed Switch.
- Cloud Native Storage (CNS) control plane.
- All-flash space efficiency features.
- Deduplication and compression.
- VMware Aria Operations within vCenter.
- Software-defined data-at-rest encryption.
- Stretched cluster support.
- VMware HCI Mesh.
- Data Persistence Platform for modern stateful services.
Product characteristics
The platform integrates storage with VMware virtualization technologies to support scalable and centrally managed infrastructure.
- Software-defined storage platform for VMware environments.
- Supports hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi-cloud deployments.
- Integrates with VMware vSphere for unified compute and storage management.
- Supports virtual machine and container-based workloads through VMware Tanzu integration.
- Centralized monitoring and infrastructure visibility through VMware Aria Operations.
- Optimized for modern storage devices with vSAN Express Storage Architecture.
- Compatible with industry-standard server hardware.