Memblaze Partner With Vmware for Solutions

Memblaze Technology Co. Ltd, partner of VMware in data acceleration field, was present at VMware PEX2015 for showing its solutions on application acceleration of virtualization.

PBlaze3 flash memory card

Tang Zhibo, co-founder, Memblaze, expressed, “The cooperative relationship between Memblaze and VMware is long-term and profound; as for the acceleration techniques in virtualization application, Memblaze has been engaging in the long-term R&D and practice accumulation in product technology and solutions, in addition, Memblaze has achieved several successful cases in many industries. In the future, Memblaze will, in aspects of the new generation of PBlazeIV PCIe flash memory cards and industry solutions, carry out further cooperation with VMware as an important partner.“

In 2013, Memblaze successively joined in the TAP and IOVP, and then Memblaze started gradually establishing the long-term cooperative relationship with VMware. In early 2014, PBlazeIII took the lead in passing the official certification test of VMware EXi5.1 and VMware EXi5.5, which supported the products such as vSphere, vFRC, VDI and VMware Virtual SAN. As of January 2015, Memblaze had finished the drive authentication of block and SCSI, which laid a solid foundation for the future cooperation between both parties in the field of virtualization.

On the basis of the R&D of virtualization application acceleration techniques, Memblaze has accumulated experience of practices and solutions in the field of VMware. In a case of the education sector, the client optimized the overall I/O performance of VMware Virtual SAN through deploying VDI on VSAN for establishing the teaching resource pool, and deploying one PBlaze3 flash memory card for each VSAN node as the read and write cache. Such a solution helped the school reduce 58% of TCO, promote the performance for two times, and realize the flexible expansion. It was a domestic case for using Server SAN to replace the centralized storage application and ensuring the performance by PCIe flash memory cards. At present, Memblaze has created the customized solutions concerning the features of demand of clients in finance industry, education industry, government and more. In the future, Memblaze will devote efforts in the R&D in industries of energy, medical treatment, electricity and more, and accelerate the implementation of the solutions on flash memory acceleration in the field of virtualization.

In the process of rapid development of flash memory technology, NVMe has become an important interface standard in the field of PCIe flash memory card; the PBlazeIV PCIe flash memory card will fully support NVMe, and the ESXi of VMware has also integrated the interface drive of NVMe, which means that NVMe will become an important joint point for the cooperation between Memblaze and VMware in the future, and the solutions of both parties will be more available and effective under the support of NVMe standard.

VMware expects to create the global partner ecosystem on the basis of the virtualization technology for helping clients accelerate their business development. VMware China has paid more attention to strengthen the cooperation with local enterprises. Since the making of the cooperation intention, Memblaze has engaged in R&D, and made a market planning.

At VMware PEX2014 and VMworld2014, as well as other activities such as the national tour of VMware in China, Memblaze offered the support and exhibited lots of solutions and cases on flash memory acceleration as a key partner of VMware.