vSAN is a software-defined storage product sold as an option with VMware’s vSphere hypervisor, providing the storage virtualization layer for a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) cluster built on vSphere. VMware partners with server OEMs to create separate HCI products, including the Dell EMC VxRail, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX and Hitachi Vantara UCP HC. The Futurum Group covers each of these in our HCI Comparison Matrix and associated documents.
In addition to those vendor-branded products, vSAN is also the foundation for Ready Nodes, which are HCI appliances offered by over a dozen infrastructure vendors. This Product
Review will focus on Ready Nodes.
Ready Nodes are based on VMware vSAN, vSphere and vCenter unified management. This stack runs on x86-based server hardware provided by more than a dozen vendors, and Intel and AMD’s EPYC CPUs. These companies sell the solution as their own HCI appliance products, each certified by VMware.
There are well over 100 Ready Node models available from approved vendors in various hybrid and all-flash configurations. See current datasheets from each vendor to determine which
Ready Node configurations or “profiles” they currently support. The list of Ready Node hardware vendors includes Acer, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Fujitsu, HP, HPE, Hitachi, Huawei, Inspur, Intel, Lenovo, NEC, Quanta, Supermicro, and Toshiba.
VMware vSAN Product Review Includes:
- Overview
- Highlights
- Usage
- Architecture Deployment
- EvaluScale Product Review Methodology
- Evaluator Group’s Opinion
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