Huawei OceanStor Converged Storage Solutions Certified for vSphere 6.0

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. announced at VMworld 2015 that the Huawei OceanStor converged storage portfolio – including the 18000 series, V3 series, Dorado series and VIS series – has been certified for vSphere 6.0 virtual platform and Virtual Volumes (VVOL).

Huawei’s storage arrays for the OceanStor solutions have passed the required vSphere 6.0 certifications, enabling vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) for Block, VAAI for NAS (VAAI NAS), Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA), and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).

OceanStor storage platform has also achieved certification for VVOL, allowing granularity and flexibility in how storage is consumed by virtual environments.

Advantages of OceanStor solutions for vSphere 6.0 platform:

• Optimized path management policy:  OceanStor UltraPath software has been certified by VMware and can provide better I/O performance and reliability in managing Huawei storage array paths than the native multipath I/O (MPIO) software.
• More flexible networking: OceanStor V3 series converge SAN and NAS protocols, meeting customers’ diversified requirements in building FC, iSCSI, and NFS networks.
• Higher ROI: OceanStor arrays can support vSphere 6.0 and all its features without complicated upgrades. They can also employ vSphere vMotion to non-disruptively migrate data across data centers that span an ultra-long distance and reduce the migration network round-trip time (RTT) to 100ms.
  

“We thrive to be the chosen storage platform for VMware, and year after year we make a big investment in engineering so we can provide a broad solution portfolio for VMware customers,” said Fan Ruiqi, president, Huawei Storage product line. “With our latest product release and the certification for Virtual Volumes and vSphere 6.0, Huawei is well positioned to take a leadership role, providing customers with reliable and trustworthy VMware solutions that will help them to build next generation software-defined storage (SDS) enterprise data centers with excellent scalability, performance, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services.”

The OceanStor converged storage portfolio is available in the US and globally. Huawei’s VVOL-ready storage solutions will ship in Q4 2015.