NexentaStor 3.1 Integrated With vSphere Storage APIs

At VMworld 2011, Nexenta Systems, Inc. announced that it provides a key storage component. In addition, the company announced that NexentaStor 3.1, the company’s core OpenStorage software, is now integrated with the VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration.

These two announcements reflect Nexenta’s commitment to providing the storage solutions to meet the needs of the VMware partner and customer communities.

NexentaStor is a VMware certified solution that features management and performance integration with VMware software, including the VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration and delivers a storage infrastructure for VMware customers. With NexentaStor, VMware users can cost-effectively unlock the power of VMware vSphere by leveraging the benefits of VMware vMotion, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware Storage vMotion and VMware Consolidated Backup.

In a further sign of Nexenta’s commitment to VMware and the vSphere community, NexentaStor uses the VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration, which integrate with VMware vSphere to achieve greater efficiencies and scalability. Storage vendors leveraging this API framework deliver incremental capabilities in VMware vSphere virtualized environments that other vendors cannot replicate. By supporting the VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration within NexentaStor 3.1, Nexenta delivers increased scalability for vSphere, improved VM performance by offloading storage operations to NexentaStor, and overall cost efficiencies for the underlying storage infrastructure.

"Nexenta is increasingly becoming a storage technology of choice for service providers and large enterprises with virtualized and cloud environments," said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. "We appreciate very much VMware’s expertise and partnership as we seek to make enterprise class storage for everyone a reality."