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vSAN Product Feature
STD ADV STD ADV ENT STD ADV ENT STD ADV ENT STD ADV ENT

Launch Date 15’Q3 16’Q1 16’Q3 17’Q1 18’Q1

Storage Policy Based Management ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

vSphere Distributed Switch ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Rack Awareness (Fault Domain) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

All-Flash Hardware1 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Health Monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Stretched Cluster2 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Deduplication & Compression (All Flash) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Erasure Coding RAID 5/6 (All Flash) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

QoS – IOPS Limits3 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Software Checksum ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Block Access (iSCSI) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

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HTML 5 User Interface ✔ ✔ ✔

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VMware vSphere
Editions • Designed as a soft bundle for flexibility
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➢ Customers can deploy products independently

➢ Customers can upgrade products independently

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STD ENT+ ENT+ ROBO STD ROBO ADV ROBO ENT
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Optimal data path, minimal compute overhead
Best Storage for • Unified management experience & datacenter automation
vSphere Environments Application centric, granular policy management (SPBM)

• Deployment options On-Prem & in Public Clouds

• Appliances & Integrated Systems - 15 OEM partners
Choice, Flexibility, • Multiple public clouds offering vSAN HCI
Rich Ecosystem • Rich SW Ecosystem - back-up, data protection services

• Powering Multi-Clouds in Production TODAY

• Extend your applications - consistent and common control plane
Edge to Core to Cloud • Optimized for Cloud Native Apps & Containers
• VMC storage services & DRaaS powered by vSAN

[1] vSAN holds 33% SOM in HCI – Source IDC, Dec2017

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Storage Storage
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• Minimal Host CPU and I/O

vSphere vSphere
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consistent performance

Compute • Awareness of hypervisor

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