SanDisk Introduces New Solutions for VMware Horizon 6 and Virtual SAN at VMworld® 2014
August 26 2014 - 3:01AM
Business Wire
Three New Reference Architectures Deliver
Notable Performance Improvements for Horizon 6 on Virtual SAN
Leveraging ULLtraDIMM™ and Fusion ioMemory
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today announced broad support for VMware®
Horizon 6 and Virtual SAN™ with a series of virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI) and end-user computing (EUC) solutions for
Horizon 6, utilizing the award-winning ULLtraDIMM™ solid state
drive (SSD) and Fusion ioMemory.
The award winning ULLtraDIMM SSD and
Fusion ioMemory virtual desktop solutions allow enterprise
organizations to select the right deployment option for their
environment, providing greater flexibility and reducing barriers to
widespread adoption of VMware Horizon 6 and Virtual SAN. (Photo:
Business Wire)
When coupled with VMware’s Horizon 6, ULLtraDIMM and Fusion
ioMemory allow customers to deploy high-performance, cost-effective
virtual desktop infrastructure solutions and increase virtual
desktop density. Additionally, through the combination of
solid-state hardware and software technology, SanDisk enables
enterprise organizations to select the right deployment option for
their environment, providing greater flexibility and reducing
barriers to adoption.
“Software-defined storage allows enterprise customers to break
traditional barriers between the compute, storage, and network
layers of the data center. We can create innovative models
leveraging software to increase ROI of existing storage
infrastructure,” said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and
general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions, SanDisk. “The
solutions for Horizon 6 and Virtual SAN are prime examples of
how SanDisk continues to collaborate with
VMware. These solutions are just the beginning of many
advances that our partnership with VMware will bring to virtual
desktop infrastructure deployments.”
SanDisk’s ULLtraDIMM memory channel storage solution enables a
new level of performance and end-user productivity for virtualized
environments. Because of its position relative to the server CPU,
five micro-second write latency, and scalable performance of up to
1-Million IOPS for a typical deployment of 8-ULLtraDIMMs working in
parallel, the ULLtraDIMM significantly reduces VDI boot storm
impact. It also enables up to 5X faster virtual desktop
infrastructure desktop pool creation over traditional disk storage
solutions1. Servers using ULLtraDIMM deliver greater virtual
desktop infrastructure density per host, improve virtual desktop
infrastructure response times and reduce the cost per virtual
desktop infrastructure session.
The Fusion ioMemory virtual desktop infrastructure solution
delivers up to 90 percent SAN offload potential and up to 16X
increased desktop density per server when used in conjunction with
flash-enabled SAN storage2. The result is an enhanced end-user
experience for virtual desktop infrastructure deployments along
with the ability for organizations to significantly scale their
virtual desktop infrastructure environments while reducing the
total cost per virtual desktop. These solutions scale from a few
hundred to several thousand virtual desktops without adding
complexity into a VMware environment.
“We are thrilled by these new flash-powered solutions from
SanDisk which provide our mutual customers with increased levels of
VM performance density with fast, cost-effective and highly
scalable, virtual desktops for key customer deployment options
whether it is with SAN, in-server or with Virtual SAN,” said Erik
Frieberg, Vice President of Marketing, End User Computing, VMware.
“We look forward to working with SanDisk to drive cost-effective
EUC/virtual desktop infrastructure adoption across all market
segments.”
The three new reference architectures combining the power of
ULLtraDIMM and Fusion ioMemory with Horizon 6 and Virtual SAN to be
demonstrated at VMworld include:
- In-Server ULLtraDIMMThis
construction of an 8-node ULLtraDIMM™ SSD configuration running
Horizon 6 will highlight the advantages of utilizing an ultra-low
latency, high-performance configuration for virtual desktop
infrastructure deployments. In addition, the demonstration will
illustrate how ULLtraDIMM can easily handle highly challenging
virtual desktop infrastructure issues including providing fast,
consistent boot times.
- Virtual SANThis live
demonstration of a 3-node Virtual SAN cluster for Horizon 6 will
highlight how organizations with heavy user virtual desktop
infrastructure workloads can benefit from a combination of
SanDisk’s enterprise-grade SSDs.
- SAN StorageFor customers using
SAN storage, this reference architecture will showcase the option
of using the Fusion ioMemory virtual desktop infrastructure
solution and a flash-enabled SAN storage. This configuration
provides the ability to increase virtual desktop density by 16X and
scale a single, half rack block to accommodate 1500 virtual desktop
sessions with fast, consistent performance, to ensure rapid,
consistent start-up times for “boot storms.”
To experience these demos first hand, visit SanDisk at booth
#1023 during VMworld taking place at the Moscone Center in San
Francisco. For more information about ULLtraDIMM for virtualization
and virtual desktop infrastructure use cases, please visit the
company’s website or enterprise blog. For information specific to
ULLtraDIMM for VMware Horizon 6 and Virtual SAN, please review the
Solutions Brief. For information on Fusion ioMemory solutions
please visit http://www.fusionio.com/products/atomic-series/.
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.
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1 Testing environment data: http://bit.ly/1qESkgU
2 ESG Lab Spotlight, End-to-end Flash for VDI, August 2014.
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