Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Another major milestone, 5000 customers reached for VSAN!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  22. 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.

  27. 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.

  44. 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

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

  50. 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. 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.

  56. 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?

  59. 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!