SanDisk Showcased All-Flash VMware Virtual SAN 6 Architecture

SanDisk Corporation announced support for an all-flash VMware Virtual SAN 6 architecture for business-critical applications and databases.

Deployed at entry-level as a 4-node cluster that can scale up to a total of 64 nodes, the server design empowers vital business applications, such as database transaction processing and VDI applications, to perform more than two million transactions per minute (TPM). This Virtual SAN 6 architecture leverages Lightning Gen. II 12Gb/s SAS SSDs and CloudSpeed SATA SSDs to provide the cache and persistent storage tiers required for highly-reliable, enterprise application performance.

“SanDisk has been a very strong VMware Virtual SAN partner from the onset, as we clearly saw the potential for hyper-converged storage solutions to reduce IT infrastructure complexity and related storage costs,” said John Scaramuzzo, SVP and GM, enterprise storage solutions, SanDisk. “We are deeply committed to our expanding relationship with VMware and continue to introduce new solutions that allow our joint enterprise customers to fully maximize data center resources. We are also honored to be a VMware partner in the development of the vSphere APIs for IO Filtering.“

The all-flash VMware Virtual SAN 6 architecture helps customers increase business agility and productivity by enabling IT to provision services faster, increase user satisfaction and DR service levels for business critical applications. Additionally, customers can reduce capital expenditures by avoiding the purchase of additional storage resources to accommodate peak workloads. Coupling VMware solutions with flash technology also reduces points of failure by simplifying data center storage infrastructure, which eases system management and reduces operational expenses.

“This new all-flash VMware Virtual SAN design from SanDisk provides our mutual customers with increased levels of VM performance density with scalability and the necessary price/performance SSD attributes,” said Charles Fan, senior VP and GM, storage and availability business unit, VMware, Inc. “VMware is designed to meet the demands of today’s mobile workforce, and is optimized for software-defined data center architectures. By partnering with SanDisk to certify flash solutions for vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN environments, we can help our customers derive greater efficiency, flexibility and IT resource utilization to power their enterprises.“

As a VMware partner in the development of the vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, SanDisk demonstrated how its FlashSoft caching software uses the new APIs to provide solid-state storage caching for vSphere 6.

Video overview of SanDisk’s support for VMware’s Virtual SAN 6