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Another major milestone, 5000 customers reached for VSAN!

Duncan Epping · Jul 19, 2016 ·

Yes, new quarterly results are out, and this is crazy, Yanbing (SVP/GM for Storage & Availability BU) dropped the news on twitter last night:

Amazing customer momentum in Q2. Hyper-converged license bookings (VSAN+VxRAIL SW) grew >200% YoY. Customer count grew to 5,000! Congrats!

— Yanbing Li (@ybhighheels) July 18, 2016

Yes that is correct, VSAN customer count grew with 1500 in just 1 quarter and the license bookings also grew > 200% Y0Y. Crazy numbers if you ask me, and some serious traction. Considering how well VxRail is doing I can only see this ramping up faster even. Just some quotes from last nights earnings call, you can find a transcript here and audio here if you are interested.

Pat Gelsinger:
Our hyper-converged license bookings, including VSAN and VxRail software, grew over 200% year-over-year. The new VxRail appliance we jointly developed with EMC was launched earlier this year and has enjoyed an impressive start, benefiting also from Dell’s decision to resell VxRail.

The rock stars of Q2 were NSX and VSAN and they were just fabulous

Yes, clearly the VxRail and the momentum that it is seeing was a piece of that. But a lot of the customer count was non-VxRail. So this product has now hit a point of inflection, as you suggest, that really was thrilling. And if I would call out one product in Q2 that just blew their numbers away, VSAN is it, and it was the rockstar of Q2 above all others. And what we’re seeing is that the product maturity, the channel momentum, I commented on the transactional channel before, and that really is well fit to VSAN. But also some of the enterprise use cases have clearly seen momentum, as well. And then we add to that the incremental benefits of VxRail that we jointly developed with EMC and Dell now reselling that VxRail product. It was also geographically balanced, as well. We saw VSAN growing across all of the geos, large customers, major wins, in healthcare, also mid market wins across different geos. So really, really excited about the VxRail, as well as the overall hyper-converged category for us and VSAN, the rockstar of Q2.

You know what, I will give away 5 “Essential Virtual SAN” books to 5 random people who leave a comment (and retweet / share this post on linkedin) to celebrate this great achievement. Please leave comment with your real name and correct email address so I can reply for your home address! I email winners Wednesday 19th of July end of day. [UPDATE: Winners have received an email from me, or will within the next 10 minutes]

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Server, Storage, Various, vSAN adoption, earnings, virtual san, VMware, vsan

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Comments

  1. Kian Wah Lai says

    19 July, 2016 at 09:16

    Great!

  2. Constantin Ghioc says

    19 July, 2016 at 09:18

    Great job, looking forward for next VSAN goodies 🙂

  3. Markus says

    19 July, 2016 at 09:18

    Would be happy to read your book. As an VxRail customer I thinkt that could come handy for me.

  4. Amit Panchal says

    19 July, 2016 at 09:21

    VSAN rocks and I’m sharing this post all over social media. Great result and we can only win more !!! #VSANrocks

  5. Johan says

    19 July, 2016 at 09:34

    Fantastic results, well done. It shows VMware is doing it right. Now let’s get AF VSAN for ALL!!!

  6. Arunabha says

    19 July, 2016 at 09:50

    Great. The result was quite expected due to booming hyper-converged solutions. VSAN will rule in next-gen.

  7. Victor Forde says

    19 July, 2016 at 09:51

    Awesome news and no surprise! VSAN FTW

  8. Oga Ajima says

    19 July, 2016 at 09:54

    Impressive growth.

  9. Maarten Van Driessen says

    19 July, 2016 at 10:07

    Great to see this growth. I’m very curious to see what will be announced for the next release aswell!

  10. brifarrugia says

    19 July, 2016 at 10:08

    Great news!

  11. Kim Bottu says

    19 July, 2016 at 10:16

    VSAN has come a long way and has matured a lot. Congrats to the team, you guys are taking the HCI market by spades!

  12. Shady El-Malatawey (@ShadyMalatawey) says

    19 July, 2016 at 10:19

    Go VSAN!!
    I really like VxRail appliances. Although deployment of VxRail in well-secured environment is harsh somehow 😀

  13. Patryk says

    19 July, 2016 at 10:56

    Well done keep it up!

  14. wojcieh says

    19 July, 2016 at 11:07

    Captain vSAN must be happy 🙂

  15. Sebastien Masterton-Smith says

    19 July, 2016 at 11:18

    Great blog, it’s almost my home page!

  16. James Tiffany says

    19 July, 2016 at 11:30

    That is great news we are thinking of a POC in the near future

  17. Eugenio Vitali says

    19 July, 2016 at 11:33

    Wow! that’s a really impressive growth! Go VSAN!

  18. Filipe Pinto says

    19 July, 2016 at 12:39

    I have one of those VSan running Horizon 7 is my DC 🙂 Great solution.

  19. K.Deepak Balaji says

    19 July, 2016 at 12:57

    I would like to have your book

  20. Thomas says

    19 July, 2016 at 13:03

    Great results!!

  21. Brent says

    19 July, 2016 at 13:09

    I guess it’s time for me to take another look at VSAN.

  22. Chris Childerhose says

    19 July, 2016 at 13:36

    Nice to see this product grow so well. The future looks bright for VSAN and it may be time to look in to it further.

  23. Simone Ruffino says

    19 July, 2016 at 13:48

    Very nice result. Congratulations to VMware.

  24. Sean Thulin says

    19 July, 2016 at 14:16

    Congrats! The whole VSAN team has come a long way with this product!

  25. Tiago Martinez says

    19 July, 2016 at 14:25

    #GoVSAN #GoVxRail

  26. Naresh says

    19 July, 2016 at 14:38

    Congratulations on this great achievement, and all the best for many more to come…

  27. Ralf says

    19 July, 2016 at 14:56

    Maybe I’m the only one, but I’ve to say that I’m a bit surprised given the price of VSAN compared to classical storage arrays.

  28. Matt Baltz (@mlbaltz) says

    19 July, 2016 at 15:13

    GO VSAN

  29. Dinesh Singh says

    19 July, 2016 at 15:16

    Congratulations. Impressive VSAN growth

  30. Sebastian Szumigalski says

    19 July, 2016 at 17:32

    Great achievement!

  31. Manish Paltel says

    19 July, 2016 at 18:12

    This is a fantastic achievement by the SABU !

  32. Thom Greene (@tbgree00) says

    19 July, 2016 at 18:19

    This is amazing! Great work everyone. Just goes to show if you make a great product and sell it on its strengths everyone will jump on board.

  33. Ash says

    19 July, 2016 at 19:00

    Amazing growth but expected for such a great product

  34. Dan Barr (@vDanBarr) says

    19 July, 2016 at 19:17

    That’s some crazy growth, congrats to the SABU group!

  35. Azarya says

    19 July, 2016 at 19:53

    The book should come in handy while deploying the nested vSAN.

  36. Matt Jones says

    19 July, 2016 at 20:35

    Yes please! I could really use this book with the 4 vSAN configurations I am working on,.

  37. vbuffer says

    19 July, 2016 at 21:31

    Great quarter results !

  38. Aaron Kay says

    19 July, 2016 at 21:51

    As a early VSAN customer, I am glad to see such great uptake! So pleased with the ease of deployment and day to day use! Performance is pretty awesome too, even for my hybrid deployments. 🙂

    My comments from last year still stand true and has been a great conversation starter for folks still not comfortable with software defined storage:

    http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/09/28/vsan-made-storage-management-a-non-issue-for-the-1st-time/

  39. Balakrishna A says

    19 July, 2016 at 22:02

    Congratulations to VSAN and VMware Teams. Virtual SAN will be a next game changer in Storage domain. Kudos!!

  40. Jonathan Stewart says

    19 July, 2016 at 23:18

    Would like to add our company to that list. Maybe this next year.

  41. Lorenzo Samaniego (@ZoSam32) says

    19 July, 2016 at 23:19

    Congratulations! Can’t wait to speak with everyone at VMworld!

  42. Steve Hoes says

    19 July, 2016 at 23:24

    All VSAN, all the time. Love it. Big fan.

  43. Andrew Mancey says

    19 July, 2016 at 23:30

    Never a doubt about this game changing technology from a world leader in innovative products!

  44. Bartlomiej @akaGoolash K. says

    19 July, 2016 at 23:31

    Reading this post shows me that I’m like mile behind all those new stuff from Vmware news till I they put me to cloud projects. Nice job VMWare

  45. Christopher Chandler says

    20 July, 2016 at 00:07

    Thanks Duncan! I look forward to the next year!
    Cheers
    Chris

  46. Brent wegmann says

    20 July, 2016 at 00:30

    love this blog… Would love the book!

  47. Jamal says

    20 July, 2016 at 01:15

    That’s great progress.
    Congrats

  48. Matt Crape says

    20 July, 2016 at 01:31

    Regardless of what one may think of various storage technologies, it is quite impressive to see such growth over such a short period.

    Kudos to VMware.

  49. david vincent says

    20 July, 2016 at 02:35

    Reviewing VSAN product for my company and it’s looking good so far!

  50. Michael Tan says

    20 July, 2016 at 02:47

    Great news for VMware! We’ve always used SAN (NetApp and Nimble) for our VMware infrastructure but would love to learn more about VSAN as the converged infrastructure is the way to go.

  51. Marcos Lins says

    20 July, 2016 at 03:38

    As a new VSAN customer, It would be very helpful to get your book to guide me to properly design/configure/manager VSAN in our organization.

  52. Rasmus Andersen says

    20 July, 2016 at 07:41

    Great! Very Nice

  53. Stefan Rasschaert says

    20 July, 2016 at 08:33

    Wohoo, VSAN kicks ass!

  54. Eric Fourn says

    20 July, 2016 at 10:56

    Congrats for this achievement. VSAN is a great product, easy to setup.

  55. edward gallagher (@woodygallagher) says

    20 July, 2016 at 12:31

    shared on LinkedIn and shared on to my old team in north america.

  56. William Willoby says

    20 July, 2016 at 13:03

    Pretty cool. 5k is just the beginning…looking forward to see this number increase in next quarter. However turning into a battle in this field against Nutanix. I see both leading the marketing. Who will win?

  57. Bas says

    20 July, 2016 at 14:49

    Working on some nice projects – yes we can 🙂

  58. Adam says

    20 July, 2016 at 15:06

    Impressive, been happy with VSAN for some time now 🙂

  59. Aaron Smith says

    21 July, 2016 at 03:46

    Validation of VSAN. It’s served me very well in my home lab and for where I work. Great to see the continued growth both in customer adaption and technical improvements!

  60. Ivan says

    17 August, 2016 at 07:54

    Well done!

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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