SanDisk Corporation announced support of an all-flash VMware Virtual San 6 architecture used for business-critical applications and databases. The new flash storage technology is ultra-fast and is capable of doing two million transactions in just a minute.
SanDisk released the new technology as entry-level and has a 4-node cluster than can be upgraded to as much as 64 nodes, according to Market Watch. It features a new server design that proves to be vital in business application like database transaction processing and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
The new Virtual San 6 architecture uses a SanDisk Lightning Gen. II 12Gb/s SAS Solid-State Drives partnered with CloudSpeed SATA Solid-State Drives that can provide cache and permanent storage for enterprise-class application performance, according to a report posted in the SanDisk website.
SanDisk senior vice president and general manager John Scaramuzzo said, "SanDisk has a very strong VMware Virtual SAN partner from the onset, as we clearly saw the potential for hyper-converged storage solutions to significantly reduce IT infrastructure complexity and related storage costs."
The new all-flash VMware Virtual SAN design from SanDisk provides the companies mutual customers with increased levels of virtual machine (VM) performance density with scalability and the necessary price-per-performance SSD attributes. VMware is also designed to reach the demands of today's advanced workforce, and is enhanced for software-defined data center architectures and by partnering with SanDisk to certify flash solutions for VMware vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN environments, the company can help customers power their enterprises through efficiency, flexibility and IT resource utilization.
To personally test the architecture interested parties are invited to visit booth #635 during VMware Partner Exchange 2015 or attend the "VMware Virtual SAN Hardware Guidance & Best Practices" session on Thursday, February 5, from 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM in Moscone West, Room 2008.