One of the best hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions is VMware vSAN 7 Standard. Aimed at modernizing and streamlining data center storage. through the smooth integration of storage with the VMware vSphere virtual machine. specifically designed for VMware settings. Conventional SAN or NAS solutions are no longer necessary thanks to vSAN. By pooling local host storage into a shared and highly available datastore.
With the Standard Edition, VMware vSAN delivers robust and flexible storage capabilities. Ideal for businesses that need a reliable, high-performance, and cost-efficient storage solution. Without advanced features like deduplication, encryption, or stretched clusters.
Key Features
- Integrated with vSphere: vSAN is built directly into the vSphere hypervisor. Providing a native, seamless solution for managing storage.
- Shared Storage Pool: combines local SSDs and HDDs from vSphere hosts into a shared datastore. simplifying storage management and enabling highly available virtual machines.
- Scale-Out Architecture: Start with 3 hosts and scale up to support growing workloads by adding more hosts and storage devices.
- Resilience and Fault Tolerance: Protects against hardware failures through storage policies. like mirroring (RAID 1) and erasure coding (RAID 5/6) for data redundancy.
- Policy-Based Management: Streamlines storage management by enabling admins to apply storage policies at a per-VM level. ensuring performance, availability, and capacity based on the needs of each application.
- Cost-effective: vSAN Standard offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). By utilizing local hardware and eliminating the need for costly, external SANs or NAS devices.
- Efficient Storage Utilization: Supports hybrid configurations (SSD for caching and HDD for capacity) to optimize performance and cost of workloads.
BENEFITS
- Scale Without Giving Up: With VMware HCI Mesh, you can efficiently and dynamically scale, compute and store to meet the demands of your applications.
- Streamline Processes: New applications and infrastructure can be implemented quickly and with little training.
- Developer-ready infrastructure: Get the self-service features developers use to build apps on a large scale, and give IT administrators the control they need to handle virtual machines and containers.
System requirements
- Minimum 3 ESXi hosts with 64-bit x86 processors (2 GHz+) and 32 GB RAM per host.
- Storage: SSD/NVMe for cache, HDD/SSD for capacity (all-flash recommended).
- Network: 1 GbE for hybrid, 10 GbE for all-flash, with less than 1 ms latency between hosts. VMware ESXi 7. x and vCenter Server 7. x required.
- vSAN Enterprise Plus license for advanced features like deduplication, encryption, and stretched clusters.
- Each host requires at least one disk group (1 cache device + 1 or more capacity devices).
VMware vSAN Standard 7 is a software defined storage solution that is integrated with VMware vSphere. A distributed share data store is create by pooling directly attached storage devices across a VMware cluster. Basic storage capabilities are offered by the Standard version for desktop workloads.
The standard edition provides the following.
- Hyper-converged storage integration with vSphere hyper-converged storage integration.
- Two-node direct connect deployment options are available.
- Basic management and monitoring of virtual private networks.
- Storage policy-based management is a process.
- Encryption of data in transit.
- It is suited for virtualized desktop environments where the need for advanced data services and stretched clusters is not as critical.