Mangstor Earns VMware IOVP Certification for MX-Series NVMe SSDs

Mangstor Inc. announced that its MX-Series NVMe-based SSDs earned certification on vSphere 6.0.

MX6300 NVMe-based SSD

The company validated its ESX driver stack on MX6300 2.7TB and 5.4TB capacity models through the VMware I/O Vendor Partner (IOVP) Program that enables vendor device drivers to be released independently of VMware product releases.

The MX6300 SSD is available with 2.7TB and 5.4TB capacities providing Vmware, Inc.‘s customers with capacity and performance flash storage in support of both physical and virtual environments. It also enables VMware users with the ability to leverage existing management tools and processes in support of industry-standard NVMe SSDs. Certification represents that MX-Series SSDs have been tested by VMware to operate in vSphere 6.0 environments.

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“We are the leading developer of the highest performance NVMe-based storage solutions and today’s announcement is indicative of the continued trend towards ultra-high performance and lower latencies in the datacenter,” said David Ridgeway, VP, product management, Mangstor. “VMware customers using Mangstor MX-Series SSDs within virtualized server environments will be able to experience the same high performance I/O responses, innovative management capabilities, and best-in-class low latency that they’ve come to expect from Mangstor within a virtualized server environment.”

MX6300 Series NVMe SSDs are supported on vSphere 6.0 enabling VMware customers to extend their vSphere 6.0 investments while deploying next-generation SSDs in their datacenters under a common management platform. Third-party testing by Tom’s IT Pro revealed that Mangstor has the fastest NVMe SSD on the market leveraging a unique architecture that features the highest raw speed, as reported in a June 2015 review.

“The rapid migration from legacy HDDs to high performance SSDs is driving the need for new storage technologies and devices, such as those based on NVMe, and certified to operate with VMware virtualization,” said Kristen Edwards, director, technology alliance partner program, VMware. “Mangstor’s MX6300 NVMe SSDs are a great addition to the VMware IOVP platform, enabling our mutual customers to increase virtualized server performance, reduce application response times, and take full advantage of the robust manageability built within VMware virtualized environments.”

“DPI prides itself in bringing the latest enterprise technologies to the UK and Mangstor’s MX6300 SSDs demonstrate tremendous increases in performance for our customers over the last generation of enterprise SSDs,” said John Vaines, MD, Diamond Point International Ltd. “As vSphere 6.0 has become essential for storage virtualization, we are very excited to be an early provider of this technology and already have ongoing trials with larger customers.“

Popular use cases for NVMe-based SSDs in vSphere 6.0 environments include use as a VM File System (VMFS) datastore enabling VMs to be placed on top for better throughput. As a pass-through device to VMs, specific R/W intensive applications can be accelerated in vSphere 6.0 environments. Lastly, support for vSphere 6.0 enables users to effectively virtualize storage connections so that each VM has independent access to its own protected storage.

The vSphere 6.0 V2 release is supported by MX-Series NVMe version 1.0 50.0 driver, firmware release v1.4, as outlined in the Compatibility Guide as follows:

• This driver can be downloaded from VMware’s IOVP website.

• Although vSphere 6.0 ships with NVMe support inbox, MX6300 SSDs require the updated 1.0.50.0 driver that can be downloaded from my.vmware.com. Consult the VMware Compatibility Guide for more information.

MX-Series SSDs are available through company’s worldwide sales channel of distributors, resellers, system integrators and manufacturing representatives.