VMware vSAN Max: Petabyte-Scale Disaggregated Storage

VMware vSAN Max marks a significant advancement in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), addressing storage challenges faced in today’s digital landscape. Built on VMware’s vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA), vSAN Max offers a petabyte-scale disaggregated HCI storage solution. It brings an unparalleled level of storage scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency to IT infrastructure.

Challenges in Modern IT Storage Landscape

Scalability and Flexibility:

Modern enterprises rely on a variety of applications to run their operations, each with unique resource needs. The wide range of applications and their varying scalability requirements add complexity, highlighting the necessity for an infrastructure that is both scalable and capable of rapidly adjusting to evolving demands.

Cost Management:

Balancing high performance with cost efficiency is crucial as businesses aim to optimize IT spending without compromising quality.

Performance Demands:

The growing complexity and size of data-intensive workloads necessitate a flexible infrastructure capable of supporting critical applications efficiently.

Simplicity and Efficiency:

Managing silo IT infrastructure can hinder operational efficiency, underscoring the need for streamlined management solutions.

VMware vSAN Max: A Solution for Modern IT Challenges

VMware vSAN Max is designed to overcome these challenges, offering a disaggregated HCI solution that allows for the independent scaling of storage resources from compute resources. It enables businesses to adapt to changing needs quickly, ensuring storage capabilities align precisely with demand. This adaptability supports dynamic workloads and growth, significantly enhancing IT infrastructure’s flexibility and scalability

Benefits of VMware vSAN Max

Elastic and Independent Scaling of Storage Resources

vSAN Max enables users to dynamically adjust storage capacity in line with fluctuating demands. It supports the expansion of HCI storage resources, allowing for scalability up to over 8.5 petabytes within a cluster. Each vSAN Max node can support up to 360 TB per host, achieving a density up to 7x greater than traditional HCI nodes.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership:

vSAN Max offers a reduction in total cost of ownership by up to 30% for mission critical applications through optimized resource efficiency and better hardware utilization.

Exceptional Performance:

Built on vSAN ESA, vSAN Max is equipped to manage vast data volumes and meet stringent requirements for performance and durability. It can deliver up to 3.6 million IOPS per storage cluster, facilitating smooth operations for applications with heavy storage demands.

Streamlined Administration:

vSAN Max integrates natively with the VMware vSphere hypervisor, presenting a unified management experience via the vSphere Client. It features dedicated UI sections for deployment and monitoring, thereby reducing the reliance on multiple management tools, simplifying administrative tasks.

Take Next Step with VMware vSAN Max

VMware vSAN elevates the storage capabilities of VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation with the introduction of vSAN Max, an optional disaggregated HCI deployment model. vSAN Max boosts the efficiency of managing storage-heavy workloads on HCI by enabling independent scaling of storage. This optimization of resource use not only reduces costs but also brings a level of scalability, flexibility, and performance that meets the demands of contemporary businesses. Discover how VMware vSAN revolutionizes IT infrastructure, driving your business towards greater success.

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