Product overview
VMware vSAN 8 is a storage virtualization platform for VMware environments. It provides software-defined storage capabilities for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and hybrid cloud deployments by integrating storage management with VMware vSphere.
Product characteristics
The platform supports scalable virtualized environments with centralized storage and compute management.
- Enterprise storage virtualization software for VMware environments.
- Supports hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) deployments.
- Integrates with VMware vSphere for unified management of compute and storage resources.
- Extends virtualization capabilities to storage through a software-defined approach.
- Supports flexible scaling of compute and storage based on application requirements.
- Supports virtual machine and container-based workloads through VMware Tanzu integration.
- Compatible with industry-standard server hardware.
- Supports VMware HCI Mesh for flexible resource management.
- Provides tools to simplify infrastructure deployment and administration.
- Supports on-premises and hybrid cloud infrastructure environments.