VMware Design Partner for Caching Solution
Brings Host-Based Flash Acceleration to vSphere 6 Ecosystem
VMworld 2015 U.S. — SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a
global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced
FlashSoft® software for VMware vSphere® 6 as a virtual data service
through integration with VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering
(VAIO). This latest version of FlashSoft software represents a
significant advance in terms of platform integration, usability and
performance, increasing customer peace of mind and confidence in
host-level storage acceleration. The new VAIO-integrated FlashSoft
software will provide write-back caching support for all VMware
datastores including VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS),
Network File System (NFS), VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes™ and
VMware Virtual SAN™.
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The newest version of SanDisk's FlashSoft
software represents a significant advance in terms of VMware
vSphere platform integration, usability and performance, increasing
customer peace of mind and confidence in host-level storage
acceleration. (Photo: Business Wire)
“We are excited about this significant leap forward for our
FlashSoft software for VMware vSphere, which will significantly
reduce the storage latency that constrains application performance
in virtualized servers,” said Sumit Sadana, executive vice
president, chief strategy officer and GM of enterprise solutions,
SanDisk. “We have been collaborating closely with VMware for more
than a year in order to seamlessly bring the benefits of
server-tier flash acceleration to the VMware vSphere platform and
ecosystem.”
The VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering will enable integration
of third-party data services with vSphere, allowing partner
technologies to contribute to VMware’s software-defined storage
capabilities through Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM). As the
design partner for caching solutions built on VMware vSphere APIs
for IO Filtering, SanDisk collaborated with VMware in the
specification and development of this new capability to bring
partner technologies into close alignment with vSphere.
The benefits of this new version of FlashSoft for VMware vSphere
will include:
- Usability & Management: As a
data service integrated through VMware Storage Policy Based
Management (SPBM), the cache will be automatically deployed,
managed and maintained cluster-wide through VMware vCenter™ storage
policies.
- Customer Confidence: As a
supported solution of both VMware vSphere Storage Policy Based
Management and VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, customers and
OEM partners will be able to adopt FlashSoft or other third-party
virtual data services with the assurance of compatibility and
supportability.
- Increased Performance: The
VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering framework reduces storage
stack latency, delivering data to the solid-state caching filter in
one microsecond.
“VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering will bring third-party
data services into the closest possible level of integration with
VMware vSphere,” said Charles Fan, senior vice president and
general manager, Storage Business Unit, VMware. “As a design
partner, SanDisk has helped us develop a framework for not only
incorporating its own FlashSoft software, but also enabling storage
acceleration data services for our entire partner ecosystem. This
helped us further extend our software-defined storage vision
through unique software-based data services.”
Significant end user benefits of the newest version of FlashSoft
software for VMware vSphere will include:
- Manageability: Individual
virtual disks can be accelerated with ease, so administrators can
focus cache resources on the most business-critical data and
operations.
- Write-Back Caching: Support for
write-back as well as write-through caching increases data write
performance with high availability.
- Compatibility: Integration
through the VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering framework enables
compatibility with other VMware partner data services, such as
replication.
- Versatility: Performance for
virtual disks on all types of datastores can be accelerated,
including VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) on SAN, NFS on
NAS, VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on array, DAS and cloud, as
well as VMware Virtual SAN.
- Stability: User-world cache
integration reduces the risk that a problem with one virtual
machine could impact others on the same host server.
- Storage Traffic Offload Reporting
(STOR): Moving storage traffic to host-level solid-state
devices reduces overhead on storage systems, extending their useful
life and delivering performance without costly upgrades to storage
infrastructure.
“Over the years we have observed many different strategies to
bring the performance benefits of flash storage to virtual
computing infrastructures,” said Jeff Byrne, Senior Analyst at
Taneja Group. “We are excited to see VMware enabling the
integration of third-party solutions for solid-state acceleration
into the VMware vSphere platform, which will provide customers with
greater choice for improving storage performance in
software-defined storage environments.”
FlashSoft software for VMware vSphere 5.1 and 5.5 is a VMware
Partner Verified and Supported Product (PVSP), and is available
today. The new FlashSoft software for VMware vSphere 6 is certified
VMware Ready™ and will be available for purchase from SanDisk and
its enterprise channel partners later this year. For more
information about the new FlashSoft software visit the SanDisk IT
Blog.
SanDisk at VMworld 2015
To learn more and experience the power of the flash-accelerated,
software-defined data center, please visit SanDisk in booth #1920
during VMworld, taking place at the Moscone Convention Center in
San Francisco, August 30-September 3, 2015. You can join Serge
Shats for session STO5704 on “Using Virtual Data Services for IO
Acceleration in vSphere,” taking place on Monday, August 31, from
12:30 – 1:30 PM; panel session VAPP5737 with industry experts such
as Tarkan Maner and Rawlinson Rivera on Software Defined Storage,
from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM on Tuesday, September 1; or our two
Solution Exchange sessions on Wednesday, September 2: FlashSoft
1:50 – 2:10 PM and All Flash Virtual SAN from 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM;
and session STO5157 on “Running Business Critical Applications with
VMware All Flash Virtual SAN” on Thursday, September 3 from 12:00PM
to 1:00PM. SanDisk will also be showcasing its newest FlashSoft
software solution during Tech Field Day Extra with Stephen Foskett
taking place on Tuesday afternoon from 3:30-4:30pm. SanDisk’s
Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and General
Manager of Enterprise Solutions, Sumit Sadana, will be speaking at
Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit at 9:35 AM on Thursday, September 3. You
can also see SanDisk solutions at work in our technology partner
booths including: VMware, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Nexenta, CloudByte,
Tegile, SIOS, Supermicro and Maxta. For more details on SanDisk’s
presence and solutions for VMworld, visit:
http://www.sandisk.com/events/vmworld-us/.
About VMworld 2015 U.S.
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About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500
company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more
than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage,
providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the
electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art
solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data
centers, and embedded in advanced smart phones, tablets and PCs.
SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands
of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit
www.sandisk.com.
© 2015 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk,
FlashSoft and others are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation in the
United States and other countries. VMware, vSphere, Virtual
Volumes, Virtual SAN, vCenter, and VMware Ready are registered
trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and
other jurisdictions. Other brand names mentioned herein are for
identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their
respective holder(s).
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