In today’s digital landscape, businesses heavily rely on IT systems to deliver products and services to their customers. The increasing demands of applications, particularly mission-critical ones, have placed a significant emphasis on performance and availability. Where traditional storage falls short in the data center is operational efficiency, as it often requires specialists to manage specialized hardware. These requirements pose challenges in terms of management complexity and costs, driving IT managers to seek solutions that simplify operations, reduce expenses, and enable a hybrid cloud architecture.
That’s where VMware vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture comes in. It offers a high-performance and agile infrastructure that addresses these operational inefficiencies of dedicated hardware. By leveraging VMware vSAN’s software-defined storage capabilities, organizations can streamline their storage management processes, eliminate the need for specialized hardware and achieve cost savings. With vSAN’s flexibility and scalability, businesses can optimize their storage resources and seamlessly adapt to changing workload demands. This empowers IT teams to deliver a more efficient and responsive infrastructure while ensuring the performance and availability required for their mission-critical workloads.
Another consideration for most businesses is the significant cost associated with refactoring applications to run in the public cloud, making it a prohibitive factor. While cloud infrastructure has gained prominence, many organizations still prefer to keep their mission-critical workloads on-premises. These applications necessitate optimal performance, availability, serviceability, and minimal risk of downtime. On-premises hosting grants IT teams complete control over foundational data, ensuring uninterrupted access to storage and server resources. Moreover, concerns surrounding security, compliance, and the cost-effectiveness of public cloud offerings make compelling arguments for businesses to choose on-premises solutions. However, finding the right balance between these considerations and the need for agility, cost efficiency, and a cloud-first strategy presents a complex challenge for IT leaders.
The Solution –Hyperconverged Infrastructure:
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) emerges as a solution that enables organizations to achieve high performance, agility, security, and availability simultaneously. With HCI, organizations can adopt a common operational model for managing compute and storage across the core data center, edge locations, and public and private cloud environments. HCI offers scalability, operational efficiency, unified management, and cost savings by avoiding costly purpose-built storage infrastructure.
The VMware vSAN ESA Difference:
VMware vSAN, as the only VMware vSphere-native HCI solution, brings the power of the cloud to storage, ensuring consistent application performance and high consolidation ratios. vSAN ESA takes mission-critical applications to the next level, delivering unmatched performance, availability, and data protection. The solution offers significant benefits, including enhanced performance with up to 4x performance boosts, improved availability with rapid data protection, increased efficiencies with enhanced compression, and accelerated storage operations.
Running mission-critical workloads on vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture empowers organizations to meet the demands of modern applications while maintaining control, performance, and availability. By leveraging the power of HCI, businesses can achieve agility, cost savings, and a hybrid cloud-ready architecture. VMware vSAN provides the ideal platform for managing traditional applications, virtual machines, and next-generation deployments, delivering a comprehensive storage solution for mission-critical workloads across diverse environments.
To learn more how VMware is helping organization of all verticals reap the benefits of mission-critical applications, download our infographic “Mission-Critical Workloads on VMware vSAN 8 with Express Storage Architecture: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmware-infographic-vsan-express-arch.pdf
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