Product details
VMware vSAN Enterprise for Desktop is a specific edition of VMware’s software-defined storage solution, vSAN, tailored for desktop and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments.
- VDI-Optimized Storage: vSAN Enterprise for Desktop is designed to provide high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage for virtual desktop environments. It enables organizations to deliver a seamless and responsive user experience to virtual desktop users.
- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI): As part of VMware’s HCI portfolio, vSAN Enterprise for Desktop converges compute and storage resources within the same cluster of servers. This simplifies infrastructure management, reduces complexity, and improves resource utilization.
- Cost-Efficient Storage: By leveraging standard x86 servers with direct-attached storage (DAS), vSAN Enterprise for Desktop eliminates the need for expensive, dedicated storage arrays. This helps organizations reduce storage costs while still delivering enterprise-grade storage features.
- Data Protection and Availability: vSAN Enterprise for Desktop offers advanced data protection and availability features, including RAID-like protection mechanisms, data deduplication, compression, and encryption. These features ensure data integrity, availability, and security for virtual desktop workloads.
- Performance Optimization: The solution includes features to optimize storage performance for VDI workloads, such as read caching, write buffering, and adaptive resync. These mechanisms help to accelerate read and write operations, improving overall virtual desktop performance.
- Centralized Management: vSAN Enterprise for Desktop is managed through VMware vCenter Server, providing a centralized management interface for storage provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Administrators can easily manage and monitor their vSAN environment alongside other VMware infrastructure components.
- Integration with VMware Ecosystem: As part of VMware’s ecosystem, vSAN Enterprise for Desktop integrates seamlessly with other VMware solutions and services, including VMware Horizon for VDI management, VMware NSX for network virtualization, and VMware vRealize Suite for cloud management.
- Flexible Scalability: Organizations can easily scale their vSAN Enterprise for Desktop environment as their virtual desktop infrastructure grows. Additional servers can be added to the vSAN cluster to increase storage capacity and performance, ensuring scalability to meet evolving business needs.
Overall, VMware vSAN Enterprise for Desktop 7 is tailored to meet the storage requirements of virtual desktop environments, providing organizations with a cost-effective, high-performance, and scalable storage solution for delivering virtual desktops to end-users.
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