New applications are producing more data than ever, challenging enterprises to adopt a simpler, more streamlined and cost-effective approach to storage. Review this infographic to learn how hypervisor-converged storage addresses the challenges facing traditional storage solutions.

1. Server StorageBare metal
Direct attached storage
Networked
Centralized
Shared Storage
Software-Defined
Storage
Abstracts and pools
Automates with
policy-based
provisioning
Scales
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 Choices
CUSTOM CONFIGURATION
CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE
INDUSTRY ACCOLADES, INCLUDING THESE 5
VMware Virtual SAN™ is hypervisor-converged
storage that delivers a simple, elastic, and
efficient 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
TechEd
North
America
2014
Windows
IT Pro
2014
Brand
Leaders
IT Pros
Best of
Interop and
Audience
Choice Award
2014
Interop
VIRTUAL
SAN READY
NODE
BUILD
YOUR OWN
EVO:RAIL
64
Hosts
200VMs
per host
90KIOPS
per host
70Useable
terabytes
per host
Effortless 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
47%Hardware
MeetingSLA
Troubleshooting
Management
Complexity
Data Migrations
Time/Budget
Provisioning
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
Labor
26%
• Two-click deployment
• Unique storage policy engine that automates
and simplifies management
• Single pane of glass interface
LOVE THIS NEW
APPROACH TO STORAGE
3REASONSCUSTOMERS
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-effective
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 can achieve achieve outcomes such as greater data center efficiency,
improved security, high availability, and faster delivery of infrastructure and applications.
IT NEEDS A NEW APPROACH:
SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE
COMPUTE MANAGEMENT STORAGE NETWORKING
+ + +
3WAYSVIRTUALSAN
BRINGSTHEEFFICIENTMODELOF
VIRTUALIZATIONTOSTORAGE
Leaves no idle or
wasted resources.
AUTOMATES WITH
POLICY-BASED PROVISIONING
ABSTRACTS
AND POOLS
Cost-effective, server-side
flash devices and magnetic
disks for optimized hybrid
configurations or all-flash for
impressive performance.
SCALES
Delivers 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 Approach
5-Step Traditional Approach
VMware
Hands-On
Labs 2015
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2
3
If you
know
vSphere®,
you know
Virtual
SAN.
Figures represent Virtual SAN
Hybrid environment.
2015
Technology
of the
Year
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