Kioxia SSDs Achieve Windows Server 2022 Certification

Kioxia America, Inc. announced that its CM6 and CD6 Series of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs and PM6 Series of 24Gb SAS SSDs have earned Windows Server 2022 Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) certification.

This designation enables these SSDs to be used with Windows Server 2022 SDDC solutions utilizing Storage Spaces Direct. Certification testing was conducted by Microsoft to ensure the compatibility and performance of these SSDs.

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is a feature of Windows Server that creates a SDS solution, combining SSDs on clustered servers and allowing the sharing of storage resources in converged and hyperconverged IT infrastructures. Users can scale out storage capacity by adding more drives or more servers in the cluster. Storage Spaces Direct automatically onboards the new drives and rebalances the storage pool.

“At Kioxia, we constantly strive to improve upon the past,” said Steve Weinger, senior director of marketing, business development and ecosystems. “By utilizing the latest generation Kioxia BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and our SSD controller technologies, we are able to do just that – and the performance capabilities of Kioxia SSDs continues to increase rapidly. SDS solutions, such as Microsoft SDDC, can take advantage of these performance improvements and deliver cost-effective, reliable storage solutions for customers.“

Kioxia has developed and collaborates with an ecosystem of companies to ensure interoperability and compatibility with its SSDs.

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