Toshiba Attains VMware vSAN Certification

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announces that its PX05S 12Gb¹ SAS SSD family has earned VMware vSAN 6.6 certification, furthering options for hyperconverged infrastructure virtual environments.

With VMware vSAN certification, PX05S 12Gb SAS SSDs offer the benefits of tiered storage solutions to meet the demanding needs of Toshiba’s enterprise and data center customers. This certification demonstrates company’s dedication to offer an array of options to meet every challenge and reinforces the company’s recent recognition by IDC as the fastest growing storage device vendor in the $17 billion SSD segment for 2016 ².

The PX05S SAS family is VMware vSAN certified up through version 6.6. Delivering sustained random read performance of 270,000 IO/s, the 12Gb SAS SSDs offer enterprise-optimized latency, power, performance and encryption capabilities for applications such as virtual desktops, remote IT, DevOps infrastructure, DR and business critical applications.

“Hyperconverged infrastructure solutions based on VMware vSAN give storage customers new-found flexibility in selecting hardware and fast access to the latest innovations, including Toshiba’s latest enterprise SAS SSD family,” said Lee Caswell, VP of storage marketing, VMware, Inc.. “We work closely with Toshiba because they understand the needs of the enterprise storage market and deliver certified solutions for our customers’ virtualized enterprise environments.“

“VMware customers require the most reliable and high performing solutions for their virtualized infrastructure and software defined storage,” said Jeremy Werner, VP SSD marketing and product planning, TAEC. “Toshiba meets that demand by bringing together storage expertise with advanced flash memory manufacturing to deliver our enterprise 12Gbit/s SAS, which are also widely available in vSAN ReadyNode systems from leading server OEMs.“

The 12Gb PX05S SAS SSDs with VMware vSAN certification are available.

¹ Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size
² Worldwide Solid State Storage Quarterly Update, CY 4Q16 (Feb 2017 – Doc # US41259317); in 2016 over 2015, as measured by revenue and units. 2015 revenue and unit baseline includes separate results from companies merged with non-affiliate third-party companies in 2016.