- New data deduplication, datacompression and erasure coding capabilities
- Updated virtual SAN Ready Nodes feature new licensing, pre-installed software and support options
VMware, a cloud infrastructure and business mobility provider, has advanced its hyperconverged software portfolio with a new release of VMware Virtual SAN. VMware has amassed more than 3,000 customers in the 21 months since the initial release of Virtual SAN.
- Updated virtual SAN Ready Nodes feature new licensing, pre-installed software and support options
VMware, a cloud infrastructure and business mobility provider, has advanced its hyperconverged software portfolio with a new release of VMware Virtual SAN. VMware has amassed more than 3,000 customers in the 21 months since the initial release of Virtual SAN.
As the optimal foundation for the software-defined data centre, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) systems are the fastest growing converged or integrated systems*, and are expected to grow to US$1.5 billion in revenues in 2016, according to IDC*. Combining software-defined compute, storage and networking capabilities with off-the-shelf x86 hardware, HCI systems simplify IT operations and increase performance while lowering IT capital and operating expenditures.
VMware’s hyperconverged software, consisting of VMware vSphere, Virtual SAN and vCenter Server transforms x86 servers and direct-attached storage into HCI systems. In conjunction with its partner ecosystem, VMware offers its hyperconverged software on a broad range of consumption options, from turnkey HCI appliances developed jointly by VMware and EMC to certified platforms in the form of VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes available from 11 OEMs.
“VMware’s hyperconverged software is gaining customer traction due to its simple, cost-effective and high-performance architecture that enables customers to rapidly and predictably deliver infrastructure to meet business needs,” said Yanbing Li, SVP and GM, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware.
Storage efficiency increased by up to 10x
VMware Virtual SAN is designed to be the optimal storage solution for VMware vSphere virtual machines, including for business-critical applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote office/branch office (ROBO), and test and development environments. The software enables core storage services for virtualised production environments, with greater performance, scalability, flexibility, and lower latency and cost. VMware Virtual SAN shifts the management model for storage from the device to the application with storage policy-based management, enabling administrators to provision storage for applications in minutes.
VMware Virtual SAN 6.2, the fourth-generation of VMware’s enterprise-grade native storage for vSphere, introduces advanced data efficiency capabilities for all-flash storage in addition to new quality of service as well as performance and capacity monitoring. VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 can enable an all-flash HCI system for as low as US$1 per usable GB** and increases storage efficiency by up to 10x***.
New features include:
VMware’s hyperconverged software, consisting of VMware vSphere, Virtual SAN and vCenter Server transforms x86 servers and direct-attached storage into HCI systems. In conjunction with its partner ecosystem, VMware offers its hyperconverged software on a broad range of consumption options, from turnkey HCI appliances developed jointly by VMware and EMC to certified platforms in the form of VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes available from 11 OEMs.
“VMware’s hyperconverged software is gaining customer traction due to its simple, cost-effective and high-performance architecture that enables customers to rapidly and predictably deliver infrastructure to meet business needs,” said Yanbing Li, SVP and GM, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware.
Storage efficiency increased by up to 10x
VMware Virtual SAN is designed to be the optimal storage solution for VMware vSphere virtual machines, including for business-critical applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote office/branch office (ROBO), and test and development environments. The software enables core storage services for virtualised production environments, with greater performance, scalability, flexibility, and lower latency and cost. VMware Virtual SAN shifts the management model for storage from the device to the application with storage policy-based management, enabling administrators to provision storage for applications in minutes.
VMware Virtual SAN 6.2, the fourth-generation of VMware’s enterprise-grade native storage for vSphere, introduces advanced data efficiency capabilities for all-flash storage in addition to new quality of service as well as performance and capacity monitoring. VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 can enable an all-flash HCI system for as low as US$1 per usable GB** and increases storage efficiency by up to 10x***.
New features include:
· Deduplication and compression to provide as much as 7x data reduction with minimal impact on CPU and memory overheads.
· Erasure coding (RAID 5/RAID 6) increases usable storage capacity by up to 2x.
· Erasure coding (RAID 5/RAID 6) increases usable storage capacity by up to 2x.
· Quality of service (QoS) capabilities that provide increased visibility, control and reporting of the input/output operations per second (IOPS) consumed by each virtual machine.
· Enhanced performance, capacity, and health monitoring
Extended Virtual SAN Ready Nodes ease procurement, support and deployment
In conjunction with the introduction of VMware Virtual SAN 6.2, VMware is unveiling extensions to VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes (precertified configurations of servers) through its OEM partners. To date, VMware has partnered with 11 server OEMs to deliver more than 100 systems certified to run VMware’s hyperconverged software.
New extensions to the VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node programme will provide OEM partners with the option to factory-install VMware vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN with certified drivers and firmware to simplify day-one operations. Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems and Supermicro are the initial OEMs to offer these new VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes. These extended VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes can also be bundled with software licenses or can accommodate customer-provided licenses. Additionally, OEM partners have the ability to offer unified support for both hardware and software components.
These extensions will enable VMware and its ecosystem partners to continue to offer customers the broadest selection of consumption models and system configurations. Over time, additional partner Virtual SAN Ready Nodes offerings will be introduced. VMware anticipates further expanding consumption options for its hyperconverged software later this month by partnering closely with EMC to develop a next-generation hyperconverged appliance family that leverages technology from EMC, VMware and VCE.
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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 is expected to become available in Q116. The list price starts from US$2,495 per CPU. VMware Virtual SAN for Desktop list prices start at US$50 per user.
Partners are expected to deliver new VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes throughout 1H16.
**VMware Virtual SAN hardware configuration created on the Supermicro reseller website www.thinkmate.com and assumes a 6x storage efficiency based on VMware testing of VDI workloads, December 2015.
***Based on internal analysis and comparison to VMware Virtual SAN 6.1, December 2015
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