For customers who want single-tenant, dedicated compute, network, and storage, a hosted vSphere infrastructure is the ideal solution. In this scenario, the entire infrastructure, physical and virtual, is owned and managed by the service provider. Consumers are able to access this infrastructure through a service portal where they have the ability to provision and manage virtual machines, on demand, through an intuitive graphical user interface.

As discussed earlier, vSAN is a hyper-converged offering which makes the hosted vSphere environment an ideal use case. First, it enables providers to stand up an infrastructure in a timely and predictable manner. There is no need to add external arrays or configure LUNs, so the time to deployment is greatly reduced and the process is highly repeatable. Second, vSAN is supported on all major server OEM platforms. Most service providers have a preferred server vendor and receive favorable pricing. Because vSAN is likely supported on their preferred platform, the existing procurement vehicles do not need to be altered.

In summary, service providers can leverage their current VMware skill sets, reduced time to deployment, lower CapEX/OpEX, and the ability to use existing processes and procedures for procuring equipment. End clients get increased agility, reduced risk, and reduced CapEx/OpEx. These benefits make vSAN the best hyper-converged offering for hosted vSphere environments.