Seagate Supports VMware Virtual SAN With 12Gb SAS HDD and SSD

Seagate Technology plc, announced that its Enterprise Performance 15K HDD and its 1200 SSD 12Gb SAS drives have been certified by VMware as interoperable storage tiers for VMware Virtual SAN.

Seagate 12Gb HDD drives and SSD support Virtual SAN for vSphere, a hypervisor-converged storage platform, delivering the benefits of faster, reliable and shared data for traditional data centers and emerging cloud infrastructures.

“We congratulate Seagate for obtaining VMware Virtual SAN certification,” said Gaetan Castelein, senior director, storage and availability, VMware. “We look forward to continuing our work with Seagate to deliver 12Gb/s technology that provides efficient, reliable and scaleable solutions for customers.“

With VMware Virtual SAN certification for 12Gb SAS HDDs and SSDs, Seagate drives went through a certification process to ensure that the solution meets Virtual SAN customer requirements. Upon certification, the drives are validated to take advantage of all Virtual SAN benefits including performance and simplified storage.

“We are pleased to partner with VMware to provide a path for the future with 12Gb/s support for VMware in data centers,” said Scott Horn, VP marketing, Seagate. “The only VMware certified 12Gb/s solution in the industry, these drives coupled with the vSphere platform deliver the optimum performance in terms of speed, scalability and efficiency- a winning combination that will enable us to provide unparalleled performance.“

“Lenovo enterprise customers demand cutting-edge storage technology and Seagate’s 12Gb SAS delivers just that, providing high-performance and robust enterprise reliability that they can trust,” said Darrel Ward, VP, enterprise storage, enterprise business group, Lenovo Group Ltd. “VMware’s certification of this technology only reinforces our assertion that Seagate is a technology leader when it comes to storage solutions.“

A step forward in scale-out storage architectures, the Enterprise Performance 15K HDD and 1200 SSD offer Virtual SAN customers significant benefits of scalability and manageability as well as reliability and endurance for mission-critical applications. Both family of drives are listed on the VMware Compatibility Guide.

“At Dell, we take pride in our ability to introduce industry-leading solutions that increase storage performance while maintaining data integrity, system reliability and exceptional value,” said Brian Payne, executive director, server solutions, Dell, Inc. “We’ve worked in lock-step with VMware and Seagate to ensure customers who want to deploy Virtual SAN can do so on the best platform in the industry. VMware’s certification of Seagate 12Gb SAS HDD drives further exemplifies this point and complements Dell’s latest server and storage portfolios.“

“Supermicro offers the widest range of 12Gb SAS3 server and storage solutions on the market supporting Seagate’s new 12Gb SAS 15K HDD/1200 SSDs,” said Don Clegg, VP, marketing and business development, Supermicro Computer, Inc. “With our combined VMware certified FatTwin Virtual SAN solutions, enterprise and cloud providers can now accelerate deployment of cost effective, virtualized infrastructure, delivering customers higher performance and greater efficiency with increased reliability.“