Mellanox Enables Highly Efficient Virtual Desktop Infrastructure using VMware’s Virtual SAN Storage Solution and Micron SSDs
August 25 2014 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Collaborative solution boosts application
performance and lowers TCO
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data
center servers and storage systems, today announced a collaborative
solution using VMware Virtual SAN™, a hyper-converged storage
product, Mellanox’s 10GbE interconnect and Micron’s (NASDAQ:MU)
solid-state drives (SSDs) that enables a highly efficient Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment.
The solution consists of 3 servers running VMware vSphere® and
VMware Virtual SAN™, each with one Mellanox ConnectX®-3 10GbE NIC,
two Micron 1.4TB P420m PCIe solid-state drives and six hard disk
drives (HDDs). Combined, the three servers support 360 Virtual
Desktops with less than 5 minutes boot time, significantly reducing
the total cost per user.
VMware’s Virtual SAN aggregates locally-attached disks in a
vSphere cluster to create a storage solution that can rapidly be
provisioned from VMware’s vCenter™. This simple model saves both
time and money while delivering high-performance with SSD
caching.
“We are happy to see the growing adoption of VMware Virtual
SAN,” said Alberto Farronato, director, product marketing at
VMware. “We are pleased that Mellanox and Micron have recognized
the advantages that Virtual SAN enables and have integrated it into
their joint VDI solution.”
Mellanox's scale-out 10/40/56GbE products enable users to
benefit from a far more scalable, lower latency, and virtualized
fabric with lower overall fabric costs and power consumption. These
benefits yield greater efficiencies, and simplifies and streamlines
storage management compared to traditional Ethernet fabrics.
“As the number of worldwide mobile internet users continues to
grow exponentially, IT managers are looking to deploy more
efficient VDI systems to support the growth,” said Kevin Deierling,
vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “The joint
solution enables a scalable infrastructure that minimizes the cost
per virtual desktop user.”
Micron’s P420m PCIe SSDs combine leading performance, power
efficiency, and a low total cost of ownership to accelerate I/O in
enterprise servers, hot data cache systems, and online transaction
processing applications. It is a logical choice for Virtual SAN
implementations, which all require some element of flash
storage.
“VSAN is a key enabler of flash as performance needs are moving
more mainstream across virtualized applications,” said Kevin
Dibelius, director of enterprise storage marketing at Micron.
“Pairing our high-performance storage with Mellanox’s
high-bandwidth switches helps customers maximize system throughput
and cost-efficiency, dramatically improving application
performance.”
Demonstrations and presentations at VMworld® 2014 (August
24th- August 28th)
Visit Mellanox Technologies at booth #2023 or Micron at booth
#929 to learn about the benefits of using this flash-based storage
solution. More information on Mellanox’s activities during VMworld
2014 is available at http://www.mellanox.com/vmworld14.
Supporting Resources:
- Learn more about Mellanox’s complete
10/40/56GbE solutions
- Learn more about Micron’s P420m PCIe
SSDs
- Learn more about VMware Virtual
SAN
- Follow Mellanox on Twitter, Facebook,
Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube
- Join the Mellanox Community
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end
InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for
servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data
center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest
latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking
system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast
interconnect products: adapters, switches, software, cables and
silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business
results for a wide range of markets including high performance
computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and
financial services. More information is available at
www.mellanox.com.
Mellanox and ConnectX are registered trademarks of Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their
respective owners.
VMware and Virtual SAN are registered trademarks or trademarks
of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The
use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal
partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
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