Now I get the same great benefits

of virtualization for my storage.

Virtual SAN is as budget-friendly
as it is simple.
VMware Virtual SAN
Radically simple software-defined storage

Enter

Simplify Your Storage

VMware Virtual SAN brings benefits to your businesses and your IT infrastructure alike. This affordable, scalable
storage solution means you can add storage when you need itwithout committing large amounts of capital or
disrupting day-to-day operations.
From its simple configuration and installation to its automated policy-based management, VMware Virtual SAN quite simply
transforms the operational model for storage in virtual environments. Through automation it makes short work of manual
tasks that add the cost and complexity so common in traditional storage solutions.
Now you can simplify your VM storageand give your business the performance, agility and cost effectiveness it needs.
Virtual SAN is ideal for:

Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI)
Cutting storage TCO up to 50% and
allowing you to granularly scale-up
or scale-out your storage as your
environment expands. It easily handles
peak performance requirements
(including boot, login and read/write
storms), supports high-density VDI
environments, and allows you to
granularly scale from proof of concept
through to production.

Tier 2/3 Production

Apps and Test/Dev
environments
Making it simpler to manage, reducing
storage costs for non-mission critical
workloads, delivering high performance
and consolidation ratios, and providing
VM-level SLA management via
storage-based policies. Its also ideal
for workloads that need replication
RPOs of less than 15 minutes with
2 to 3 daily snapshots.

Disaster Recovery
With zero data loss in the event of
hardware failures. Its simple to deploy
for any VMware vSphere admin through
integration with the VMware stack and
works seamlessly with VMware vSphere
Replication and vCenter Site Recovery
Manager. Finally, it reduces the cost of
storage and minimizes your data center
footprint, putting an enterprise-grade
DR solution within reach for enterprises
of any size.

Virtual SAN is a key building block of a software-defined data center. With an immediate positive impact on business, Virtual SAN
is not only a category leader but is the first policy-driven storage product designed for virtualized environments. From its easy installation
and configuration to the automated provisioning and managementit allows you to radically simplify storage, drive down costs and
increase your agility.
Read on to discover some of the real-world applications of Virtual SAN.

Oregon State University

Itrica

Education: Academic Institution

IT Services Provider for the medical industry

Challenge:

Challenge:

Solution:

Solution:

Result:

Result:

Growing workloads strained the system and manual

balancing couldnt compensate for increasing load.
Virtual SAN is a scalable, software-defined storage
tier for VMware vSphere environments.
Distributed software-defined storage has improved
network availability, while automatic load balancing has
increased performance and improved IT productivity.

Before Virtual SAN, we had no

scalability. Now its a piece of cake;
if I want to add additional capacity,
I just add additional capacity. I dont
have to worry about whether my
SAN can grow or not.

Implementing a single storage system that meets

the needs of all customers.
Virtual SAN lets them instantly provision customized
virtual storage for each customer.
Reduced cost, while improving performance and
managing scalability and redundancy from a single
pane of glass.

By minimizing the I/O path,

were able to achieve best-in-class
performance on this converged
platform.
David Sampson, CTO, Itrica

Alan Sprague, System Administrator, Oregon State University

Cincinnati Bell
Technology Solutions

Digital Media
Software Company

IT and Communications Provider

Global leader in digital media software

Challenge:

To expand its cloud computing business the company

has to provide customers with highly available and fault
tolerant storage.

Solution:

Virtual SAN provides easy-to-use shared storage.

Result:

Policy-based storage management has meant far

fewer SLA issues, while pay-as-you-grow scalability
has reduced TCO.

Virtual SAN allows CBTS to build

another level of fault tolerance and
high availability into our virtual
deployments for mission-critical,
Intel-based applications.
Dave Burns, Vice President of Technical Operations, CBTS

Challenge:

To improve internal delivery and simplify IT

resource management.

Solution:

Implemented shared storage for VMs.

Result:

Storage and compute resources are now managed

together through integrated virtualization solutions,
with faster delivery to end-users.

Virtual SAN enables us to gain

the benefits of the vSphere stack
without having us look towards
traditional SAN across a large
distributed environment.
Cloud Architect, Digital Media Software Company

Join the growing wave of

businesses using Virtual SAN.
Learn more about Virtual SAN at vmware.com/products/vitual-san.
VMwares Virtual SAN is the standard bearer for a new class of storage
solutions that promise to revolutionize how the world buys storage.
Source: InterOp 2014