SolidFire Delivers Predictable Storage Performance

SolidFire, Inc., in all-flash storage systems, announced interoperability with vSphere Storage I/O Control.

This will enable IT managers to deliver predictable storage performance to each individual VM within their infrastructure, while enabling applications and end user experiences to be more predictable and easier to manage.

SolidFire’s storage QoS capabilities with vSphere Storage I/O Control gives IT managers the ability to designate, manage and deliver predictable VM performance from the host all the way through to the underlying SolidFire storage system. This interoperability can deliver predictable andperformance for all applications in a shared infrastructure and reduce the need for traditional manual performance management and over-provisioning.

“SolidFire with vSphere Storage I/O Control provides a tunable and predictable storage infrastructure for each VM datastore,” said SolidFire’s founder and CEO Dave Wright. “VMware managers can oversee provision storage policies within the virtual infrastructure that are then enforced down to each virtual disk in the SolidFire storage system. SolidFire uses vSphere Storage I/O Control to enable VMware’s end-to-end performance control.“

“Controlling the dynamic allocation of resources in a virtualized environment is important,” commented Gaetan Castelein, senior director, product management, SDS, VMware. “SolidFire, using vSphere Storage I/O Control, can isolate QoS to enable predictable performance for each VM in a shared storage infrastructure.“

SolidFire’s QoS architecture drives increased VM awareness and management granularity
between the host and storage system layers of the data center infrastructure:

• SolidFire’s interoperability with vSphere Storage I/O Control, with storage-enforced QoS, enables predictable performance to VMs
• Interoperability allows for automated storage performance allocation and manages minimum, maximum and burst performance based on per-VM Storage I/O Control requirements
• Dynamic performance allocation to datastores reduces the need to over-provision storage, allowing more VM deployment
• SolidFire QoS settings are adjusted on the fly to match any vSphere Storage I/O Control changes, reducing the need for storage administrator intervention
• Automated orchestration adjusts volume IO/s allocation, matching each VM’s vSphere Storage I/O Control settings, even as those settings are changed and VMs are moved from datastore to datastore
• End-to-end QoS control reduces ‘noisy neighbors’ and allows for the consolidation of multiple performance-sensitive applications onto a shared infrastructure