Oracle Licenses vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Products

Oracle Corp. has signed an agreement with VMware enabling support of vSphere Storage APIs on its storage products, including ZFS Storage Appliances and Pillar Axiom storage systems.

The license enables development across VMware infrastructure, including the vSphere API for Array Integration (VAAI), VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA), VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and vSphere.

Support for these APIs will help simplify VMware customer access  high level of performance and efficiency available with ZFS Storage Appliance and Pillar Axiom storage systems.

VMware users will be able to support thousands of virtual machines per storage appliance with snapshot and cloning technology that takes advantage of the industry’s fastest and most efficient storage to reduce VMware costs.

Announcement adds expanded support of VMware environments to Oracle storage systems’ existing support of vSphere 5.1, Oracle VM, Oracle Solaris Zones, and Hyper-V.

“By deepening the integration of VMware infrastructure with Oracle storage systems, we are bringing VMware customers a new level of performance and value,” said Mike Workman, SVP, storage solutions, Oracle. “We believe that customers deploying both cloud environments and traditional server virtualization will be able to serve dramatically more VMs per storage server, simplify solution scaling, streamline management, and reduce costs.”

“With support for vSphere Storage APIs, Oracle’s NAS and SAN storage solutions provide joint customers with enhanced performance and efficiency that naturally complement the benefits of VMware virtualization and cloud solutions,” said John Gilmartin, VP of cloud infrastructure products, VMware.