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Virtual SAN >> vSAN, and grown to 5500 customers!

Duncan Epping · Oct 28, 2016 ·

Not that it is a big deal, but as some people are like me they probably prefer to use the right name. As of this week Virtual SAN was renamed to vSAN. I am not sure we will see the change in the product in 6.5 (I doubt it) and even the website changes will take a while, but expect to see this soon.

The correct name is vSAN. The small v shows the integration with vSphere. https://t.co/3FAHPCqFdA

— Lee Caswell (@leecaswell) October 24, 2016

Oh, and before I forget, there was the Q3 earnings announcement, vSAN is still growing strong, 5500 customers at the moment! And lets not forget: “software license bookings continue to exceed expectations with vSAN and VxRail increasing over 150% year over year.” I say: Bring on Q4! And I can’t wait for 6.5 to ship 🙂

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  1. Nícolas Wildner says

    28 October, 2016 at 12:42

    Cause VSAN(all capital) is from Cisco, right? 😉

  2. Monad says

    28 October, 2016 at 15:13

    Why has not VMware changed the name to vSAN on their own homepage? .. strange

    • [email protected] says

      29 October, 2016 at 09:38

      they are not as fast as I am 😉

  3. banc says

    28 October, 2016 at 18:42

    Does VMware publish any numbers of vSAN licenses in production (or in use)? It’s always hard to tell how often the software is in use considering the fact that some (possibly many) customers own the license but don’t use is (software bundles, ELAs etc.). Would be interesting to compare it to other hyper converged solutions.

    • [email protected] says

      29 October, 2016 at 09:37

      5500 customers is “customers using vSAN”, we are tracking this. (Based on support calls, phone home data etc). Also keep in mind that roughly 75% of all vSAN sales is outside of ELA. (Stated by Yanbing in one of the last Tech Field Day sessions)

  4. Simon Hamilton-Wilkes says

    28 October, 2016 at 22:12

    And we’ve been correcting people to a capital V all this time!
    Don’t we look foolish now 😉

  5. Graham says

    29 October, 2016 at 19:16

    Now you need to write edition 3 of your vSAN book to sow the new vSAN spelling 🙂

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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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