VMware-Certified In-box Drivers in Optimized
PCIe NVMe SSD Simplify Adoption for Software-Defined Data
Centers
VMWORLD 2016 — Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today
announced that its popular HGST-branded Ultrastar® SN150 PCI
Express (PCIe) NVMe solid state drive (SSD) is now certified for
use with VMware® Virtual SAN and vSphere. Optimized for easy
set-up, the Ultrastar SN150 SSD for VMware environments reduces
latency, and brings hyperscale-level performance and enhanced
Quality of Service (QoS) time to virtualized servers and cloud
storage. This can significantly lower the total cost of ownership
of VMware storage environments over traditional storage
architectures by reducing performance tuning and field support
costs. In server-side environments where VMware virtualization
management is utilized, the Ultrastar SN150 is an ideal option for
data center managers building or deploying systems on VMware
Virtual SAN or vSphere.
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Western Digital Corporation HGST-branded
Ultrastar SN150 PCIe NVMe SSD for VMware platforms (Photo: Business
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Part of Western Digital’s HGST-branded Ultrastar data center
storage solutions family, the certified Ultrastar SN150 is
available in a low-profile, half-height, half-length (HHHL), add-in
card form factor and is one of the first NVMe SSDs in the industry
to utilize VMware’s in-box NVMe driver. For data center
administrators, this helps eliminate the hassle of time-consuming
downloads and configurations, and allows faster deployment. The
Ultrastar SN150 drive is available in capacities ranging from
1120GB1 to 3820GB and offers speeds which exceed Virtual SAN’s
highest performance class (Class F) specifications, enabling it to
easily address the heaviest data workloads in a variety of
virtualized server and storage configurations, including all-flash
and hybrid configurations utilizing flash for caching and hard disk
drives for storage capacity.
“Our Ultrastar SN150 PCIe drive is one of the most effective
ways for data centers to extend their virtualization IT
infrastructure, offering consistently high performance, with very
low latency and the speed of NVMe,” said Anand Jayapalan, vice
president of enterprise and client compute solutions marketing at
Western Digital. “With its certification, we further broaden
Western Digital’s unmatched portfolio of VMware-certified storage
solutions for IT administrators managing the growing data needs of
their most demanding cloud, hyperscale and enterprise applications
in all-flash and hybrid Virtual SAN environments.”
“Customers racing to meet dynamic business demands look for
strong business partners to simplify the adoption of new
technologies,” said Lee Caswell, vice president of products,
Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware. “We have partnered
with Western Digital to integrate the price-performance benefits of
the Ultrastar SN150 PCIe NVMe SSD with the leading hyperconverged
product, VMware Virtual SAN. Our low-risk in-box certified driver
approach delights customers and reduces risk for partners.”
Compared to commonly used Virtual SAN-certified SAS products,
the NVMe-based Ultrastar SN150 drive can deliver up to nearly four
times the IOPS performance for 4K random reads and nearly twice the
IOPS performance for 4K random writes2. Coupled with its low
latency (~20 microseconds), Ultrastar SN150 SSDs are designed to
give consistent, predictable performance. They are well-suited for
latency-sensitive On Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) database
workloads, fast Virtual Desktops, and mixed workloads environments
running databases and latency-sensitive applications where response
time is critical, such as e-Commerce, financial applications and
in-house applications such as e-mail.
The Ultrastar SN150 drive is the latest addition to the
company’s full portfolio of storage solutions for VMware
environments. Western Digital Corporation and its family of WD®,
HGST and SanDisk brands today offers more than 200 different
storage devices, software solutions and configurations certified
for vSphere and Virtual SAN, including Fusion ioMemory™ PCIe SSDs,
SanDisk® Lightning II SAS SSDs, Ultrastar™ 7K6000 enterprise HDD,
FlashSoft™ 4 for vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, and many others.
Western Digital storage products are utilized in all of the top 10
VMmark benchmarks for vSphere, including the latest #1 benchmark
published this month3.
Features and Specifications
- Certified for use on VMware vSphere and
Virtual SAN platforms
- Enterprise-grade reliability:
Flash-aware RAID, end-to-end data-path protection, advanced ECC,
secure erase, power fail protection
- Supports the PCIe Gen 3.0 server
platforms
- Classified at the highest performance
category (Class F) for Virtual SAN
- Available in a low-profile,
half-height, half-length (HHHL), add-in card form factor
* Additional product details and specifications can be found
here.
Western Digital at VMworld
Visit the SanDisk-brand Western Digital booth (#1955) at VMworld
2016 to learn more about the HGST-branded Ultrastar SN150 and the
recent solutions from the company for VMware environments. For more
details on Western Digital’s presence at VMware, including
conference break-out sessions in which the company will be
discussing the Ultrastar SN150, visit our IT Blog.
HGST
HGST (@HGSTStorage), a Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC)
brand, helps the world harness the power of data. Our smarter
storage solutions power the markets and companies that shape our
lives—enabling possibilities for the cloud, enterprise and
sophisticated infrastructures everywhere. For more information,
please visit www.hgst.com #LongLiveData.
About Western Digital
Western Digital is an industry-leading provider of storage
technologies and solutions that enable people to create, leverage,
experience and preserve data. The company addresses ever-changing
market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling,
high-quality storage solutions with customer-focused innovation,
high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products are marketed
under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs, distributors,
resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. Financial
and investor information is available on the company's Investor
Relations website at investor.wdc.com.
© 2016 Western Digital Corporation. All rights reserved. Western
Digital, WD, Ultrastar, SanDisk, FlashSoft and Fusion ioMemory are
registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation
or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. VMware,
vSphere and Virtual SAN are registered trademarks or trademarks of
VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
jurisdictions. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, and/or
service marks, indicated or otherwise, are the property of their
respective owners.
- 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Actual user storage is less.
- As compared to commonly-used Virtual
SAN certified SAS products, and based on published specifications
and internal benchmarking tests.
- Source:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including new product offerings and product availability, that are
based on current expectations and involve numerous risks and
uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements
to be inaccurate include among others: need for higher capacity,
faster storage solutions may not grow as expected, our product
offerings may not be available when we expect or gain customer
acceptance in the timeline we expect, and the other risks detailed
from time-to-time in Western Digital’s and SanDisk’s Securities and
Exchange Commission filings and reports. This news release contains
information from third parties, which reflect their projections as
of the date of issuance. All statements made in this news release
are made only as of the date of this release. Western Digital
undertakes no obligations to update the information in this release
in the event facts or circumstances change after the date of this
release.
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Western Digital Corporation Media RelationsLaura Bakken,
+1-408-801-7653laura.bakken@sandisk.comorWestern Digital
Corporation Investor RelationsBob Blair,
+1-949-672-7834robert.blair@wdc.com
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