Fusion-io Said ioMemory Flash Products Compatible With VMware Virtual SAN …

Fusion-io, Inc. announced that its ioMemory products are supported by and compatible with VMware Virtual SAN, announced at VMworld 2013.

VMware Virtual SAN is a new software-defined storage solution that extends the hypervisor to pool CPUs, flash memory and locally attached disks, delivering a converged compute and storage infrastructure. It uses server flash to deliver storage performance acceleration via distributed R/W caching.

Fusion-io offers a reliable flash tier with an architecture that VMware Virtual SAN customers can leverage to maximize the performance of their deployments.

"As virtualization and cloud solutions continue to help enterprises deliver on business objectives, storage performance is an increasingly critical factor for meeting user expectations in virtualized infrastructure," said Jeffrey Treuhaft, Fusion-io EVP of products. "VMware Virtual SAN is a unique software-defined storage solution based on a resilient, highly available scale out architecture that intelligently eliminates performance bottlenecks with caching. By leveraging Fusion ioMemory in their VMware Virtual SAN deployments, customers can achieve superior VMware Virtual SAN peak performance using the server infrastructure of their choice."

Enterprises are increasingly consolidating workloads and VMs with VMware solutions, making application performance and storage efficiency a common challenge for companies seeking to achieve both responsive user experience and cost savings through virtualization. Fusion ioMemory offers scalable, performance and reliability for VMware’s virtualized workloads in a high capacity form factor that integrates into x86 servers. ioMemory is available from server systems vendors including Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and resellers worldwide.

"By putting storage closer to compute, VMware Virtual SAN supports a rapidly emerging category of workloads suited to server side flash, including VDI and cloud computing," said John Gilmartin, VP, cloud infrastructure products, VMware, Inc. "Fusion-io provides flash memory performance for the most demanding cloud and virtual environments."

By clustering server-side flash and DAS, VMware Virtual SAN creates a distributed shared datastore that is resilient and optimized for VMs, offering shared pools of storage to multiple servers with scale out capability for both compute and storage. As the scale of the virtualized deployment increases, the data acceleration VMware Virtual SAN delivers when using ioMemory architecture becomes exponentially more valuable by offering performance under even the most demanding virtualized workloads.

The company was exhibiting at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, CA.