NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN Enables Customers to Achieve Twice the Performance for their Virtual SAN Integrated File Services
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 3, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced that its NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN™ has been upgraded to offer day one support for VMware Virtual SAN™ 6. Nexenta’s SDS solution, which simplifies and streamlines the provisioning of file services utilizing VMware Virtual SAN, now offers twice the performance - boosting users ability to create a hyper-converged solution without paying for expensive external storage arrays.
Launched in March 2014, VMware Virtual SAN was created for VMware vSphere® environments as the first policy-driven storage product to automate manual storage tasks. This latest release, launched in conjunction with VMware vSphere 6, offers numerous benefits that NexentaConnect takes advantage of:
- All-Flash Architecture
- New Virtual SAN high performance snapshots and clones
- Rack Awareness for greater resiliency
- Expanded scalability in blade environments through direct-attached JBODs
- 2x greater scale with 64 node cluster support
- 2x-4x more IOPS making VMware Virtual SAN and NexentaConnect more suitable for high performance apps which require consistent response times
Sitting on top of VMware Virtual SAN, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN operates with and augments VMware Virtual SAN by adding enterprise-class Windows and UNIX based file services without the need for any additional hardware purchases. NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN completes hyper-converged VMware Virtual SAN deployments by utilizing local storage in servers to deliver high performance NFS and SMB file services to virtual machines and virtual desktops, all managed through a single VMware vCenter Server™ console.
“Through its latest support for VMware Virtual SAN 6, Nexenta continues to define the latest trends in storage and address the needs of today’s SDS market,” said Simon Robinson, Research Vice President at 451 Research. “Nexenta’s latest integration efforts with VMware offers a smart answer to today’s complex storage challenges, empowering an enterprise to quickly get to its virtualization goals.”
Gaetan Castelein, Senior Director, Storage Product Management & Marketing, VMware, said, “Nexenta supports our vision of software-defined storage through which VMware plans to bring to storage the same efficiency that VMware vSphere brought to compute. VMware Virtual SAN is at the core of VMware’s strategy for storage. NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN complements VMware Virtual SAN, creating a hyper-converged unified storage solution for the data center of the future."
Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer, Nexenta said, “Today’s announcement enables joint customers of NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN and VMware Virtual SAN 6 to receive support from day one, enabling streamlined management of file services, recovery nodes and compatibility to VMware EVO: RAIL™, which combines compute, networking and storage resources in an all-in-one hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, and ultimately doubles the performance.”
Supporting Quotes
“The demand for SDS solutions, optimized for virtualization is growing across organizations in every industry, creating a heightened demand for Nexenta’s open source solutions,” Joe Brown, President of Accelera Solutions. “We’re looking forward to working with Nexenta to bring NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN to large and small organizations that are looking for highly reliable, available and scalable technology to meet ever-changing data center requirements.”
“As a leader in delivering enterprise-class SSDs, we are excited to work with Nexenta to bring high-performance and highly reliable Software-Defined Storage solutions to the market,” said Ulrich Hansen, vice president, SSD product marketing at HGST. “Combining HGST’s proven SSDs with the latest version of the NexentaConnnect software creates an easy-to-use, converged storage solution for data center users deploying VMware Virtual SAN 6 with NAND Flash-based storage.”
“NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN advances our goal to increase the availability and performance of data and storage across a variety of infrastructure environments,” said Steve Fingerhut, vice president, enterprise solutions marketing, SanDisk. “Nexenta’s latest Virtual SAN solution extends the performance enhancing power of our Optimus Gen. II Extreme SSDs with value-added, Software-Defined Storage solutions that enable businesses to make the most of their IT budgets.”
“Supermicro’s latest Ultra, TwinPro, FatTwin and SuperBlade solutions optimized for VMware Virtual SAN 6 maximize storage performance, efficiency and density in scale-out virtualized environments,” said Wally Liaw, Sr. Vice President of Sales at Supermicro. “Combining our Virtual SAN hybrid, all-flash or industry only hot-swap NVMe architecture with NexentaConnect, we are enabling rapid deployment of the most advanced, hyper-converged infrastructure for SDDC, IaaS and Public, Private Cloud Service applications.”
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Further resources
Software-Defined, Hyper-Converged VDI Solutions Brief
VMware Virtual SAN: File Services with NexentaConnect blog
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN datasheet
NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon® datasheet
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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