Architecting VMware vSAN 6.2 : vSAN Technology and Features Overview : 3.2 vSAN Key Features : 3.2.2 Space Efficiency
   
3.2.2 Space Efficiency
vSAN 6.2 introduced space efficiency technologies, optimized for all-flash configurations, to minimize storage capacity consumption while ensuring performance and availability. This feature includes deduplication, compression, and RAID5/6 erasure coding to reduce capacity consumption, for a lower total cost of ownership, while still ensuring the same levels of availability and performance.