VMware vSAN editions feature comparison

VMware vSAN is available in multiple editions. To get a quick overview of the available features of each available edition, this article describes all important feature differences of the available VMware vSAN editions.

Important note: VMware vSAN is a separate product based on VMware vSphere and is, except for the VMware Horizon Advanced / Enterprise Bundle license, not included in vSphere license edition.

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VMware vSAN editions feature comparison

The following table shows the feature differences between the different VMware vSAN editions:

Editions	Standard	Advanced	Enterprise	Enterprise Plus
vSAN
Storage Policy Based Management	✔	✔	✔	✔
Virtual Distributed Switch	✔	✔	✔	✔
Rack Awareness	✔	✔	✔	✔
Software Checksum	✔	✔	✔	✔
All-Flash Hardware	✔	✔	✔	✔
iSCSI Target Service	✔	✔	✔	✔
QoS - IOPS Limit	✔	✔	✔	✔
Cloud Native Storage	✔	✔	✔	✔
Deduplication & Compression*		✔	✔	✔
RAID-5/6 Erasure Coding		✔	✔	✔
vRealize Operations within vCenter		✔	✔	✔
Data-at-Rest Encryption			✔	✔
Stretched Cluster with Local Failure Protection			✔	✔
vROps Advanced
vSAN-aware WLB				✔
Customizable Dashboards				✔
Auto Remediation				✔
Automated Intent-Based Workload				✔
Capacity Planning				✔

* Deduplication and compression only with all-flash vSAN

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Author: Sebastian Köbke