VSAN
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
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
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
VDI and its Deployment: Three Strategies
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.
June 16, 2015 • 5 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