VMworld: Vexata Optimized NVMe-Based Storage Solution for VMware Workloads

Vexata, Inc. announced an optimized NVMe-based storage solution for VMware workloads.

The compay delivers economics and I/O throughput performance than any other AFA vendor. This means enterprise architects and infrastructure owners can continue to innovate with virtualized environments while minimizing the costs of their workloads and scaling them more easily than with traditional AFA storage solutions.

As multi-core compute performance increases, the number of VMs supported by a VMware ESX hypervisor continues to grow, translating to hundreds of VMs per datacenter rack. This type of traffic load can easily overwhelm all-flash storage infrastructures, because a single multi-core server can drive more throughput than most AFAs can support- requiring architects to distribute, load and buy more AFAs than needed to scale performance. Modern application workloads are driving higher levels of bandwidth, IO/s and faster response times, exposing the storage controller to bottlenecks that exist in almost every AFA architecture.

Storage solution for VMware workloads
The VX-100F offers economics by reducing the investment in virtualization to deliver performance at lower costs than leading AFAs. The company offers linear scaling of performance as capacity scales. VMs are provided with NVMe-based storage that expands capacity from terabytes to petabytes and unlocks the potential of modern solid-state media.

In addition, the firm enables the consolidation of multiple, simultaneous tier-one workloads to one array without sacrificing capacity or performance. The VX-100 unleashes the potential of NVMe solid-state media with a purpose-built architecture that gives VMware infrastructure a tenfold performance improvement over existing AFAs at much lower cost points. This allows IT architects to deploy mission critical applications – such as Oracle, SQL and SAS – on VMware virtual infrastructure with the confidence that these solutions will perform to deliver the desired SLAs.

Performance and economics for VMware environments
In terms of performance, the VX-100F scalable NVMe flash array provides VMs with massive throughput, low latency, 99.9999% availability and enterprise data services to deliver performance I/O to VMs with bare-metal performance for mission critical workloads. The parallel access of the VX-100 to the NVMe media results in VMs accessing data with higher query and ingest rates compared to a conventional AFA. This enables IT teams to consolidate multiple VMs to a single storage system while giving each VM an improvement in performance and operational efficiency.

Vexata also enables IT teams to reduce their number of servers and associated software licenses that are dedicated to VMs. The VX-100F scalable NVMe flash array is certified for VMware ESXi 6.7 and supports Microsoft Hyper V, Xenserver, Oracle/RHEL Virtualization and KVM. Eliminating VM contention and improving VM security running different applications on the company’s solution is enabled by performance data services for every application – regardless of load.

The VX-100F solution is also VMware-certified and supports the vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) to provide integration with vSphere and vCenter. As a result, VM data is fully protected with space-efficient snapshots and clones which provide a platform for production, test and development. All VM data is secured with an AES 256-bit algorithm which operates at line rates without performance degradation.

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Vexata for VMware Workloads solution brief