Product overview
VMware vSAN 8 Advanced for Desktop is a storage virtualization solution for VMware environments. The Advanced edition includes Standard edition capabilities together with all-flash space efficiency features, supporting hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and hybrid cloud deployments.
Product characteristics
The platform integrates storage and compute management with VMware vSphere to support scalable virtualized environments.
- Enterprise storage virtualization software for VMware environments.
- Includes Standard edition features with additional all-flash space efficiency capabilities.
- Supports hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) deployments.
- Integrates with VMware vSphere for unified management of compute and storage resources.
- Supports flexible scaling of storage and compute based on application needs.
- Designed to simplify storage management through software-defined infrastructure.
- Supports virtual machine and container-based applications through VMware Tanzu integration.
- Compatible with industry-standard server hardware and hybrid cloud environments.
- Supports VMware HCI Mesh for flexible resource scaling.
- Provides infrastructure capabilities for virtual machines and container workloads with centralized management.