Flash storage manufacturer, SanDisk Corporation, has unveiled its support of a new all-flash VMware Virtual SAN 6 architecture for business-critical applications and databases. Deployed at entry-level as a 4-node cluster that can scale up to a total of 64 nodes, the new server design empowers vital business applications, such as database transaction processing and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) applications, to perform more than two million transactions per minute (TPM). This new Virtual SAN 6 architecture leverages SanDisk Lightning Gen. II 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSDs and CloudSpeed SATA SSDs to provide the cache and persistent storage tiers needed for enterprise-class application performance.
The all-flash VMware Virtual SAN 6 architecture is designed to help customers increase business agility and productivity by enabling IT to provision services faster, increase user satisfaction and disaster recovery service levels for business critical applications. Coupling VMware solutions with SanDisk flash technology also reduces points of failure by simplifying data center storage infrastructure, states SanDisk, which eases system management and reduces operational expenses.
“This new all-flash VMware Virtual SAN design from SanDisk provides our mutual customers with increased levels of virtual machine (VM) performance density with scalability and the necessary price/performance SSD attributes,” says Charles Fan, senior vice president and general manager, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware. “By partnering with SanDisk to certify flash solutions for VMware vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN environments, we can help our customers derive greater efficiency, flexibility, and IT resource utilization to power their enterprises.”
