Industry First: Seagate to Support VMware Virtual SAN With 12Gb/s SAS Hard Disk and Solid State Drives
January 21 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Enterprise Performance 15K HDD and 1200 SSD
Certified for VMware Virtual SAN to Deliver Optimum Performance in
Terms of Speed and Scalability for Large Scale Data Centers
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced that its Enterprise Performance 15K HDD
and its 1200 SSD 12Gb/s SAS drives have been certified by VMware as
interoperable storage tiers for VMware Virtual SAN. An industry
first, Seagate 12Gb/s hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives
(SSD) now support Virtual SAN for VMware vSphere®, a new
hypervisor-converged storage platform, delivering the benefits of
faster, more reliable and cost-effective shared data for
traditional data centers and emerging cloud infrastructures.
“We congratulate Seagate for obtaining VMware Virtual SAN™
certification,” said Gaetan Castelein, senior director, storage and
availability, VMware. “We look forward to continuing our work with
Seagate to deliver 12Gb/s technology that provides efficient,
reliable and scaleable solutions for customers.”
With VMware Virtual SAN certification for 12 Gb/s SAS HDDs and
SSDs, Seagate drives went through a rigorous certification process
to ensure that the overall solution meets VMware Virtual SAN
customer requirements. Upon certification, the drives are validated
to take advantage of all VMware Virtual SAN benefits including high
performance and radically simplified storage.
“We are pleased to partner with VMware to provide a path for the
future with 12Gb/s support for VMware in data centers,” said Scott
Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “The only VMware
certified 12Gb/s solution in the industry, these drives coupled
with the VMware vSphere platform deliver the optimum performance in
terms of speed, scalability and efficiency— a winning combination
that will enable us to provide unparalleled performance.”
“Lenovo enterprise customers demand cutting-edge storage
technology and Seagate’s 12Gb/s SAS delivers just that, providing
high-performance and robust enterprise reliability that they can
trust,” said Darrel Ward, vice president, enterprise storage,
enterprise business group, Lenovo. “VMware’s certification of this
technology only reinforces our assertion that Seagate is a
technology leader when it comes to storage solutions.”
A step forward in scale-out storage architectures, the Seagate
Enterprise Performance 15K HDD and Seagate 1200 SSD offer VMware
Virtual SAN customers significant benefits of greater scalability
and manageability as well as superior reliability and endurance for
mission-critical applications. Both family of drives are listed on
the VMware Compatibility Guide.
Strong Industry Support:
Dell
“At Dell, we take pride in our ability to introduce
industry-leading solutions that increase storage performance while
maintaining data integrity, system reliability and exceptional
value,” said Brian Payne, executive director, Dell server
solutions. “We’ve worked in lock-step with VMware and Seagate to
ensure customers who want to deploy Virtual SAN can do so on the
best platform in the industry. VMware’s certification of Seagate
12GB/S SAS hard disk drives further exemplifies this point and
complements Dell’s latest server and storage portfolios.”
Supermicro
“Supermicro offers the widest range of 12Gb/s SAS3 server and
storage solutions on the market supporting Seagate’s new 12Gb/s SAS
15K HDD/1200 SSDs,” said Don Clegg, vice president of marketing and
business development at Supermicro. “With our combined VMware
certified FatTwin Virtual SAN solutions, enterprise and cloud
providers can now accelerate deployment of cost effective,
virtualized infrastructure, delivering customers higher performance
and greater efficiency with increased reliability.”
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Seagate Technology plcJon Piazza,
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