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SKU: VMWA-VSAN8ENTC | Part #: VSAN8-ENT-C | MPN: VSAN8-ENT-C
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| Brand | VMware |
| Category | Software |
| SKU | VMWA-VSAN8ENTC |
| Part Number | VSAN8-ENT-C |
| Condition | New |
| Manufacturer Part Number | VSAN8-ENT-C |
| Product Name | VMware vSAN 8 Enterprise |
| Edition | Enterprise |
| Version | 8 |
| Storage Architecture | Express Storage Architecture (ESA) for all-NVMe clusters; Original Storage Architecture (OSA) also supported |
| Storage Pool Model | ESA uses storage pools replacing legacy disk groups, supporting up to 35 devices per storage pool |
| Supported Drive Types | NVMe TLC/QLC SSDs (ESA), SAS/SATA SSD and HDD (OSA) |
| RAID Policies Supported | RAID-1 (mirroring), RAID-5 (erasure coding, minimum 4 nodes), RAID-6 (erasure coding, minimum 6 nodes) |
| Adaptive RAID | ESA dynamically selects RAID-1 or RAID-5/6 based on cluster and workload conditions |
| Data Efficiency | Inline deduplication and compression at storage pool level (ESA); space efficiency applied per storage policy |
| Encryption | Data-at-rest encryption (D@RE) with vCenter-native key management and support for external KMIP-compliant key management servers |
| Stretched Cluster Support | Yes; active-active metro stretched cluster across two fault domains with witness node, requires Enterprise edition |
| HCI Mesh | Yes; allows remote vSAN datastore mounting across clusters for disaggregated compute and storage scaling |
| vSAN File Services | Yes; NFS v3 and NFS v4.1 shared file storage backed by vSAN datastore |
| Minimum Cluster Size | 3 hosts for standard cluster; 2 data sites plus 1 witness for stretched cluster |
| Maximum Cluster Size | 64 hosts per vSAN cluster |
| Hypervisor Integration | Native to VMware vSphere; managed through vCenter Server |
| Kubernetes Integration | Native CSI driver support for Kubernetes persistent volumes via vSphere with Tanzu |
| Management Integration | vCenter Server, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, VMware Aria Operations for Logs and for Storage |
| Licensing Model | Per CPU socket, perpetual license with separately available support subscription |