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Formatting 4Kn NVMe™ Drives for VMware vSphere®
4Kn NVMe drives are not compatible with VMware vSphere ESXi environments. In this blog, I’ll walk you through two ways to address this.
May 6, 2020 • 6 min read Data
NVMe™ SSDs – a Good Choice for VMware vSAN®?
Can the combination of NVMe SSDs and VMware vSAN provide the performance and cost efficiency IT needs to deliver a competitive advantage? With VMworld around the corner, we invited the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to test our latest vSAN configuration- here is what they found out. Organizations are embracing digital transformation, but the journey has […]
August 17, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Great Things Come in Threes at VMworld 2017
From modernizing the data center to digital transformation and integrating the cloud, great things come in threes at VMworld 2017! Here's what you should get excited about in HGST booth #525.
August 18, 2017 • 7 min read Data
Inside Western Digital’s vSAN Performance Testbed
From design considerations to performance best practices, the vSAN Performance Testbed from Western Digital’s Data Propulsion Labs pushes vSAN over 600k IOPs and brings definitive data to vSAN administrators and ReadyNode design teams.
July 6, 2017 • 6 min read Data
Where Your Data Center Needs to be_Tomorrow (Part II)
At VMworld in Barcelona, Western Digital will be announcing two new SSD certifications for high performance caching using Virtual SAN™. Learn how flash is enabling the VMware Cloud Foundation.
October 17, 2016 • 5 min read Data
Where Your Software-Defined Data Center Needs to be_TOMORROW
be_REAL. be_INTEGRATED. be_STRETCHY. Three ways to transform your data center in readiness for tomorrow using hyperconverged infrastructure at the speed of flash.
August 25, 2016 • 6 min read Data
38 Million NOPM! Business Critical Performance on VMware All-Flash Virtual SAN
James Carpignano shares exciting new testing results we've achieved with our partners at HPE using VMware All-Flash VSAN with virtualized Microsoft® SQL Server 2016.
June 9, 2016 • 4 min read Data
All-Flash Versus Hybrid VMware Virtual SAN™: Performance vs. Price
How do databases and business critical applications compare on all-flash versus hybrid VMware Virtual SAN? We worked jointly with ESG to compare the performance and cost impact.
April 25, 2016 • 6 min read Data
All-Flash Virtual SAN Configuration in vSphere Web Client UI
With vSphere 6.0 U1 release, VMware has now made all-flash Virtual SAN configuration easier and better than ever. Here are two ways you can take advantage of these new UI features.
March 16, 2016 • 5 min read Data
2015: A Year of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
It’s been an exciting year for us here at SanDisk® and our technology partners, and I am personally thrilled to see the interest among customers and partners on hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). When I look back to the initiatives of last year, people were often skeptical about this new technology adoption but this year has shown […]
December 17, 2015 • 5 min read Data