VMware vSAN 8 - Add-on for VVF and VCF

Flexible scaling – vSAN provides a flexible, scale-out architecture. Start with as few as 2 nodes (plus witness) and grow to up to 64 nodes in a cluster. Cluster can also scale up by adding drives to nodes. Independent resource scaling by disaggreation – VMware vSAN Max delivers petabyte-scale storage for vSphere, to scale storage independently, maximize resource utilization, and reduce costs.

Accelerated cloud native app development – With minimal effort, developers can seamlessly consume storage by choosing a policy-driven storage class for their pods and automatically mounting the volume. vSAN cloud native storage supports all key storage API objects within Kubernetes, and powers both block-centric and file-centric microservice-based applications. vSAN provides admins with a comprehensive, single-UI view to manage storage used by containers across multiple orchestrators.

Integrated file services – Easily provision a file share with a single workflow, and use vSAN as a unified storage control plane for both block and file storage. vSAN file services integrate Active Directory and support Kerberos network authentication and the most common protocols. vSAN file services can be used in two-node deployments and stretched cluster deployments.

Deduplication and compression – Software-based deduplication and compression optimizes all-flash storage capacity, providing as much as 7x data reduction with minimal CPU and memory overhead. vSAN offers the ability to turn on compression for only those environments where space efficiency must be balanced with performance requirements.

Powerful stateful services – The vSAN Data Persistence platform provides a framework for modern stateful service providers to integrate cloud native applications into the underlying virtual infrastructure leveraging the Kubernetes operator method and the vSphere Pod Service.

VM-centric policy-based management – vSAN is part of the larger VMware Cloud Foundation stack that uniquely delivers consistent, VM-centric operations through policy-based management. Within the vSAN Express Storage Architecture, per-VM policies increase flexibility of management, enabling compression policies, or customize data services on a per-VM basis.