VMware vSAN 8 Advanced for Retail and Branch Offices

VMware vSAN 8 Advanced for Retail and Branch Offices

The tailor-made storage solution for retail and branch offices

VMware vSAN 8 Advanced for Retail and Branch Offices is a purpose-built version of VMware vSAN designed for the needs of retail and branch office environments. This solution provides a robust, highly available, and scalable storage infrastructure for deployment in distributed environments, such as branch offices or retail stores, where low latency, high performance, and ease of management are critical. vSAN 8 Advanced enables organizations to efficiently centralize their IT infrastructure while retaining the flexibility to access distributed locations.

Main features:

✅ Software-defined storage – vSAN 8 Advanced uses local disks in VMware ESXi hosts to create an agile, software-defined storage pool used for virtual machines (VMs) and workloads.
✅ Geographically distributed architecture – Ideal for retail and branch environments, vSAN 8 Advanced can be easily deployed across multiple locations to ensure centralized management while maintaining local availability.
✅ High availability and redundancy – With advanced replication and fault recovery mechanisms, vSAN ensures that data remains available even in the event of host, disk, or network connection failures.
✅ Scalability – vSAN 8 Advanced provides a scalable storage solution that allows retail stores and branches to easily expand storage resources by adding additional hosts or storage devices.
✅ Data compression and deduplication – With built-in deduplication and compression features, storage space is used more efficiently and data storage costs are reduced.
✅ Centralized Management – ​​vSAN 8 Advanced can be centrally managed through VMware vSphere and vCenter, making it easier for IT teams to remotely monitor and manage storage infrastructure across multiple locations.
✅ Real-time data replication – vSAN enables real-time data replication between different locations, so that branch offices always have access to the latest data.
✅ Performance Optimization – With support for NVMe and flash technologies, vSAN 8 Advanced delivers exceptional IOPS performance necessary for the demands of VDI environments or storage-intensive applications in retail stores.
✅ Advanced security features – vSAN supports data protection mechanisms such as data encryption and a comprehensive security architecture to meet compliance and data protection requirements.
✅ Automated management and monitoring – vSAN provides automated management that ensures the storage environment is optimized at all times without the need for manual intervention.

Advantages:

✅ Reduced IT costs – Because vSAN 8 Advanced eliminates the need for expensive external SAN storage solutions, retail companies and stores can manage their storage infrastructure more efficiently and cost-effectively.
✅ High availability and resilience – Advanced replication and error recovery ensures continuous data availability, even in the event of outages or network problems in the branches.
✅ Scalability for growing stores – vSAN enables companies to scale their storage solutions as needed to keep pace with the growth of their retail or store environments.
✅ Centralized management via vSphere – Centralized management via VMware vSphere and vCenter makes monitoring, management, and troubleshooting easier for IT teams, even when they need to cover multiple locations.
✅ Optimized performance – Support for flash and NVMe-based storage devices ensures that vSAN delivers excellent performance in storage-intensive applications and retail VDI environments.
✅ Easy deployment and maintenance – With software-defined storage technology, retail companies can significantly simplify and accelerate the deployment and maintenance of their storage solution.
✅ Security and Compliance – vSAN ensures the security of stored data through built-in encryption and security features that help meet compliance requirements.

Scope of delivery:

✅ VMware vSAN 8 Advanced for Retail and Branch Offices – Full version of the software for retail and branch offices
✅ Digital delivery & license key via email within 1-2 hours

System requirements:

✅ Operating system: VMware vSphere 7.0 or higher
✅ Processor: 64-bit compatible processor with at least 2 cores per host
✅ Memory: At least 16 GB RAM per host (recommended: 32 GB or more)
✅ Hard disk storage: At least 1 TB SSD or NVMe for vSAN data storage
✅ Network: Gigabit Ethernet or better for fast network connections between hosts and clusters
✅ vCenter Server: Required for central management and orchestration of the vSAN infrastructure
✅ Storage devices: Supports HDDs, SSDs and NVMe storage devices
✅ Data replication: At least 10 Gbps connection between sites for efficient data replication

VMware vSAN 8 Advanced for Retail and Branch Offices – The perfect storage solution for retail and branch offices that require a scalable, high-performance, and highly available infrastructure. 🏬💻