Now I get the same great benefits of virtualization for my storage. Virtual SAN is as budget-friendly as it is simple.

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1 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 hypervisor-converged storage Enter

2 Simplify Your Storage VMware Virtual SAN brings benefits to your business and your IT infrastructure alike. This affordable, scalable storage solution means you can add storage when you need it without 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 storage and give your business the performance, agility and cost effectiveness it needs. Virtual SAN can be used for a wide range of use cases including: 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), and supports high-density VDI environments. Mission Critical Applications Making it simpler to manage, reducing storage costs for mission critical workloads, delivering high performance and consolidation ratios, and providing VM-level SLA management via storage-based policies. Disaster Recovery With zero data loss in the event of hardware failures. It s simple to deploy for any VMware vsphere admin through integration with the VMware stack and works seamlessly with VMware vsphere Replication and VMware vcenter Site Recovery Manager. 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 management it 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. 2

3 Oregon State University Education: Academic Institution Growing workloads strained the system and manual balancing couldn t 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 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. Itrica IT Services Provider for the medical industry 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, we re able to achieve best-in-class performance on this converged platform. David Sampson, CTO, Itrica Alan Sprague, System Administrator, Oregon State University 3

4 Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions IT and Communications Provider To expand its cloud computing business, the company has to provide customers with highly available and fault tolerant storage. Virtual SAN provides easy-to-use shared storage. 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 Digital Media Software Company Global leader in digital media software To improve internal delivery and simplify IT resource management. Implemented shared storage for VMs. 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 4

5 Join the growing wave of businesses using Virtual SAN. Learn more about Virtual SAN at vmware.com/products/virtual-san. VMware s Virtual SAN is the standard bearer for a new class of storage solutions that promises to revolutionize how the world buys storage. Source: InterOp 2014 VMware, Inc Hillview Avenue Palo Alto CA USA Tel Copyright 2014 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. The material is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Item No: 87719_v4 Virtual SAN EBook 5