Availability of Huawei FusionServer With VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. announced at VMworld 2016 the availability of twelve VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node configurations on FusionServer.

FusionServer RH2288H V3

FusionServer RH2288H V3 and RH5885H V3 Virtual SAN Ready Nodes are validated server configurations for Virtual SAN deployment. VMware Virtual SAN is a hyper-converged software-defined storage solution that can be deployed on various x86 servers. It abstracts and pools server-side flash and disk into shared virtual data store with policy-based management and application-centric data services.

RH5885H V3 front and rear

“Enterprise customers who want a converged platform with Virtual SAN Ready Node for cloud computing and key services with databases can turn to Huawei’s FusionServer RH2288H V3 and RH5885H V3,” said Qiu Long, president, IT server product line, Huawei. “Huawei’s participation in the VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node program accelerates our customers’ time-to-value.“

Reasons IT departments and enterprises choose FusionServer
for Virtual SAN implementations include:

• Choice of hyper-converged infrastructure solutions

• Choice of Gen1 – 6G or Gen2 – 12G profiles

• Choice of small, medium or large workloads; VDI linked clone and VDI full clone configurations

• Option for all-flash configurations

• Support for Xeon V3 processor

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The VMware Virtual SAN certification is part of Huawei’s overall strategy to provide enterprises with company’s highly efficient converged infrastructure, software-defined storage (SDS) capabilities and a pathway to hyper-converged infrastructure for virtualization and cloud applications.

FusionServer RH2288H V3 is a 2U, 2-socket rack server that delivers high performance, large storage capacity, scalability, and is for Internet, big data, cloud computing, virtualization, telecom services and mission-critical applications.

FusionServer RH5885H V3 is a 4U four-socket rack server that supports Xeon E7 v3 or v4 series processors with up to 96 cores and 6TB memory capacity, boosting performance. It is for mission-critical applications, such as databases, ERP, business intelligence, big data, and virtualization.

VMware Ready Nodes solutions on VMware’s compatibility guide