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Can the combination of NVMe SSDs and VMware vSAN provide the performance and cost efficiency IT needs to deliver a...

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.

A more in-depth look at the HCIBench configuration used in the initial baseline and VMware’s suggested methodology to identify a sweet spot, which helped to achieve 600,000+ IOPS

From post-install tasks through networking configuration and vSAN cluster setup, this blog takes you step by step in configuring 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.

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.

It’s no secret that we’re excited about Virtual SAN. We’ve been working with our partners and VMware to deliver certified...

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.

It’s one of the year’s biggest and most fun industry events: VMworld US 2016 is almost here, and for the...

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.

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.

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.

It’s been an exciting year for us here at SanDisk® and our technology partners, and I am personally thrilled to...

In the opening paragraph introducing my recent guest blog on VMware blogs, Michael Haag, Product Line Marketing Manager in the...

Working with Oracle database deployments, from earlier versions such as Oracle 7x to the latest Oracle database 12c , I...

In my last blog post I talked about our VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) solution with our partner Lenovo, and new OLTP...

Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve shared my last blog, mostly as I have been so busy working with...

VMware is expanding the platform’s SDS capabilities to incorporate and support third party software-based data services such as caching and...

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.

There are three distinct ways VDI is deployed: VDI–in-a-box, VDI in network storage and VDI in software-defined storage. Flash plays a key role in each deployment architecture, improving user experience, accelerating performance and reducing costs. Biswapati Bhattacharjee shares how.

In recent months, VMware, SanDisk®, Dell, Avago and Brocade have worked together on VMware’s new, hypervisor-converged Software-Defined Storage platform (SDS), Virtual...

Which drives should you choose when deploying VMware Virtual SAN? Here are 4 considerations for picking the right storage device.

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is new approach to hypervisor-converged infrastructure that I’ve written about extensively on this blog. I want...

There are many advantages to using SSDs for the capacity tier in VSAN, specifically with Enterprise-grade SSDs reaching 4TB and...