vSAN Max is Now Available

Today, December 13, 2023, VMware by Broadcom is pleased to announce the General Availability of vSAN Max, VMware by Broadcom's new disaggregated storage offering that provides petabyte-scale, disaggregated storage for your vSphere clusters. Leveraging vSAN Max, users are able to scale storage independently from compute for added levels of flexibility to support all of their workloads. vSAN Max is available as part of VMware Cloud Foundation or can be purchased on a per TiB basis as an advanced add-on offer to the new VMware vSphere Foundation offering.

Organizations today rely on a variety of applications to run the business, each with unique compute power, storage capacity, and performance needs. The growing diversity of workloads and their scaling dynamics drive the need for flexible infrastructure that enables these mission-critical applications to scale as the business demands. With the introduction of vSAN Max, our customers have greater choice to deploy vSAN by whichever means maximizes resource utilization and lowers their costs.

Performance, Scalability, and Choice

vSAN Max is built using the vSAN Express Storage Architecture and introduces new benefits to our customers who desire the ability to rapidly scale out storage capacity with high levels of performance and resilience. vSAN Max provides unprecedented levels of scalability and cost efficiency, enhancing the value of running storage-intensive workloads on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) by optimizing resource utilization and lowering TCO by up to 30%. Offering both scale out and scale up capabilities, vSAN customers have complete autonomy in how they can increase capacity.

vSAN Max nodes offer up to 7x the density of HCI nodes and can scale out to 8.6 petabytes in a cluster¹. Not only do vSAN Max customers have the ability to scale capacity, but they can also scale performance, as each node added to a vSAN Max cluster increases the available performance. And because vSAN Max is built on vSAN Express Storage Architecture, it can accommodate massive data sets and meet stringent performance and resiliency requirements, with up to 3.6 million IOPS per storage cluster¹.

Simplified Consumption

VMware has been on a journey to simplify our portfolio and transition to a subscription model - the industry standard for cloud consumption - and better serve our customers with continuous innovation, greater time to value, and predictable investments. We are pleased to announce a significant simplification of our portfolio that allows our customers to gain more value for their investment. Our portfolio will consist of two primary offers: VMware vSphere Foundation and VMware Cloud Foundation.

Customers can deploy vSAN Max by purchasing VMware Cloud Foundation or the vSAN advanced add-on offer for VMware vSphere Foundation, which is licensed on a Per TiB metric, for the amount of storage capacity needed for their environments. Note, per licensing guidelines, customers must license vSAN for all raw storage that is claimed by vSAN. Additional details are available in the VMware Product Guide.

VMware vSphere Foundation delivers an enterprise-grade workload platform for data center optimization. The solution is purpose built to:

• Boost operational efficiency, accelerate innovation for DevOps, and supercharge workload performance.
• Empower IT with intelligent operations management for best performance, availability, and efficiency.
• Delivers an easy upgrade path to an industry recognized hyperconverged infrastructure solution or other advanced services for ransomware and disaster recovery.

To learn more about purchasing options for vSAN and vSAN Max, please view the Licensing & Packaging Guide or contact your account manager today.

VMware Cloud Foundation provides large and mid-size organizations the strategic bridge to align their people, process and technology and meet their own business transformational goals. This industry recognized hybrid cloud solution delivers a:

• Platform for Innovation to MODERNIZE infrastructure to support applications at scale.
• Platform for Efficiency to OPTIMIZE IT operations for a growing application portfolio.
• Platform for Business Resiliency to PROTECT apps and infrastructure from a range of cyber threats.

Discover More about vSAN Max

Read the vSAN 8 Update 2 and vSAN Max announcement blog
Take a technical deep dive at TechZone
Download vSAN 8 Update 2

Sources:
¹Internal VMware by Broadcom analysis, August 2023

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