GEC NEWS WIREVirtual SAN 6 and vSphere Virtual Volumes to Enable Mass Adoption of Software-Defined Storage
VMware has launched a new generation of enterprise storage solutions. Designed to enable mass adoption of software-defined storage, VMware Virtual SAN 6will introduce significant scalability and performance enhancements to the company’s hypervisor-converged storage solution and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes will offer new levels of storage integration to make third-party arrays natively aware of virtual machines.
“Customers have told us they need a more flexible, cost-effective and cloud-aware approach to storage,” said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president and general manager, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMware. “VMware Virtual SAN 6 and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes will deliver on this, and represent the next phase of our software-defined storage strategy. They address customer requirements through an improved hypervisor-converged storage tier, and a new virtual machine-aware integration with existing storage arrays.”
VMware Virtual SAN 6 introduces double thescalability and up to four-and-a-half times greater performance while addingseveral new enterprise-class capabilities, making it the ideal storage platform for virtual machines, including business critical applications. VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes is a set of storage APIs that will enable a more granular integration between storage and VMware vSphere at the individual virtual machine level.
