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Optimizing Virtual SAN for Maximum Business Benefits
In the opening paragraph introducing my recent guest blog on VMware blogs, Michael Haag, Product Line Marketing Manager in the Storage and Availability Business Unit at VMware described SanDisk® as “one of our highly-valued partners on a number of initiatives, including Virtual SAN and vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO)”. In this blog I will […]
September 25, 2015 • 5 min read Data
Deploying Oracle databases on Scalable VMware Virtual SAN 6
Working with Oracle database deployments, from earlier versions such as Oracle 7x to the latest Oracle database 12c , I have witnessed how storage systems have evolved to support Oracle database critical workloads. Previously, traditional storage arrays, built with spinning hard disk drives, were able to manage the performance requirements. But the increase in the […]
September 2, 2015 • 5 min read Data
Accelerating VDI Application Response Times: New HP Virtual SAN Solution
In my last blog post I talked about our VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) solution with our partner Lenovo, and new OLTP testing results. In this post, I would like to discuss some fantastic results we have achieved with a new Virtual SAN solution for VDI that we developed with our partner, HP. Indeed, this solution is […]
August 27, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Business Critical Applications on VMware Virtual SAN: Extrapolating 48 Million NOPM!
Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve shared my last blog, mostly as I have been so busy working with different OEM partners on enabling VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) solutions. VMworld 2015 US is around the corner, taking place next week! My colleague, Beth Caltagirone, has written a nice blog elaborating on SanDisk®’s broad presence […]
August 27, 2015 • 3 min read Data
VMworld US 2015: Something new and exciting is happening in VMware vSphere 6
VMware is expanding the platform’s SDS capabilities to incorporate and support third party software-based data services such as caching and replication. With our FlashSoft software, we take advantage of these capabilities to optimize storage I/O performance, while running as a data service that is deployed and managed by vSphere storage policies. It’s real-world software-defined storage that […]
August 10, 2015 • 5 min read Data
Flash-Optimizing Virtual Workloads: HP Achieves #1 VMware VMmark with SanDisk®
We continue to see a rise in the standardization of flash-enabled application workloads with SanDisk® flash. Our customers are reporting that integrating SanDisk Flash in their enterprise data centers has enabled higher levels of technical and financial efficiencies – leading to higher productivity, improved service levels and lower costs, in many cases quite dramatically. Simply […]
July 21, 2015 • 3 min read Data
More Choice Than Ever: Flash Storage for VMware Virtual SAN
There are so many choices available today as to how to adopt all-flash Virtual SAN. And that means customers can deploy the most efficient infrastructure for their workload needs.
June 25, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Affordable, High-Performance VDI – New Reference Architecture for VMware Virtual SAN
In recent months, VMware, SanDisk®, Dell, Avago and Brocade have worked together on VMware’s new, hypervisor-converged Software-Defined Storage platform (SDS), Virtual SAN, and validated a new all-flash VDI reference architecture (RA). The recent announcement of the solution brief can be found here and here. As the RA becomes public, I would like to take the opportunity […]
May 29, 2015 • 3 min read Data
4 Guidelines to Choosing a Storage Device for VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
Which drives should you choose when deploying VMware Virtual SAN? Here are 4 considerations for picking the right storage device.
April 3, 2015 • 5 min read Data
A Guide to the Role of Flash in VMware Virtual SAN Capacity Tier
VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is new approach to hypervisor-converged infrastructure that I’ve written about extensively on this blog. I want to take the opportunity to give an overview of the role and benefits of highest capacity flash when used in VSAN capacity tier and share some suggestions and best practices for implementation. VSAN Capacity Tier […]
March 24, 2015 • 7 min read Data