Server StorageBare metalDirect attached storage

Networked

Centralized

Shared Storage

Software-Defined Storage

Abstracts and poolsAutomates with policy-based provisioningScales

TRADITIONAL STORAGE IS COMPLEX AND EXPENSIVE

Customize all components

Choose OEM-validated server configurations

Deploy in 15 minutes; add capacity with every EVO:RAIL

WHAT IS VMWARE VIRTUAL SAN?

4 REAL-WORLD USE CASES

Multiple Deployment ChoicesCUSTOM CONFIGURATION CONVERGED

INFRASTRUCTURE

INDUSTRY ACCOLADES, INCLUDING THESE 5

VMware Virtual SAN™ is hypervisor-converged storage that delivers a simple, elastic, and e�cient storage solution optimized for virtual machines (VMs).

“Over the past decade, enterprise storage capacity demand has grown faster than Moore’s Law, more than doubling every year.”

Marco Coulter, Vice President, 451 Group1

Best of TechEdNorth

America2014

WindowsIT Pro

2014Brand

Leaders

IT Pros

Best of Interop andAudience

Choice Award2014

Interop

VIRTUAL SAN READY

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EVO:RAIL

64Hosts

200VMs

per host

90KIOPS

per host

70Useable

terabytes per host

E�ortless to deploy, manage, and budget

Automates routine storage tasks using simple policy-based management framework—no special skill sets required

5 WAYS VIRTUAL SAN SAVES TIME AND MONEY

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Virtual Desktop"Before Virtual SAN, we had no scalability. Now... it's a piece of cake; if I want to add additional capacity, I just add additional capacity. I don't have to worry about whether my SAN can grow or not."

—Alan Sprague, System Administrator,

Oregon State University

Production Environments"Virtual SAN enables us to scale our storage infrastructure and while providing the necessary redundancy. This allows us to be more agile and bring our solutions to market faster."

—Frans Van Rooyen Cloud Architect, Adobe

Disaster Recovery Target“Virtual SAN allows us to build geographically dispersed clusters in a metro area, allowing a level of redundancy previously not available. More importantly, Virtual SAN provides an unmatched TCO for private cloud infrastructures."

—Dave Burns, VP of Tech Ops, Cincinnati Bell

Staging and Testing/Development"[Virtual SAN] will free up time wasted to basic storage management, allowing me more time to concentrate on my job and tasks at hand."

—TechValidate Customer Testimonial

1 Information Week. “2014 State of Enterprise Storage,” Kurt Marko, February 2014.

MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY MAXIMUM EASE OF USE

Common Storage Pain Points Source: IDC, Storage Predictions 2014, January 2014, General Storage QuickPoll, #243511, n=307 Gartner – IT Key Metrics Data 2014

Typical Storage Cost Drivers

Labor26%

• Two-click deployment• Unique storage policy engine that automates

and simplifies management• Single pane of glass interface

LOVE THIS NEW APPROACH TO STORAGE

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1. RADICALLY SIMPLE

• Flash accelerated – or use all-flash• Granular and linear scaling

2. HIGH PERFORMANCE AND ELASTIC

• Server-side economics - Lower CapEx• Higher administrator productivity - Lower OpEx• No large upfront investments

3. LOWER TCO

THIS WAY

SIMPLE

AUTOMATED

Enables dynamic storage provisioning with per-VM granularity and incremental hardware purchase

GRANULAR

Hardware agnostic, allowing for full customization to meet both capacity and performance requirements

FLEXIBLE

Leverages server-side economics, enables high-resource utilization with a predictable, linear cost curve

COST-EFFECTIVE

ALL THE BENEFITS OF VIRTUALIZATION, NOW FOR STORAGE.

vmware.com/products/virtual-san

New applications are producing more data than ever, challenging enterprises to adopt a simpler, more streamlined and cost-e�ective approach to storage.

A NEW STRATEGY FOR ENTERPRISE STORAGE

On the journey to the software-defined data center, organizations gain the cost and operational benefits of virtualization for all data center infrastructure

and they achieve outcomes such as greater data center e�ciency, improved security, high availability, and faster delivery of infrastructure and applications.

IT NEEDS A NEW APPROACH:

SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE

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Leaves no idle or wasted resources.

AUTOMATES WITH POLICY-BASED PROVISIONING

ABSTRACTS AND POOLSCost-e�ective, server-side flash devices and magnetic disks for optimized hybrid configurations or all-flash for impressive performance.

SCALESDelivers enterprise-grade performance.

Scale Up• Add flash devices to existing

hosts = increased performance

• Add hard-disk drives or flash devices = increased capacity

Scale Out• Add hosts with hybrid or

all-flash devices

50%

Editor’s Choice:

Overall Score 9.2 out

of 10

InfoWorld

Virtual SAN is the leading software-defined storage solution.

TRY VIRTUAL SAN TODAY.

2-Step Virtual SAN Approach5-Step Traditional Approach

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If you know vSphere®, you know Virtual SAN.

Virtual SAN Hybrid

2015Technology

of the Year

InfoWorld