HGST delivers VMware Virtual SAN support

“HGST supporting VMware Virtual SAN with a broad portfolio of certified devices will give enterprises and cloud data centers an extensive choice to optimally implement their software-defined storage initiatives,” said Gaetan Castelein, senior director, Storage and Availability, VMware. “Storing and managing data are two of the most important functions in the data center. We’re pleased to further extend our relationship with HGST, a company that understands the storage pain points of the enterprise. We’ll continue to work closely with HGST to offer customers powerful and flexible solutions to keep pace with enterprise IT demands.”

Leader in Enterprise SAS SSDs and Helium HDDs: The Building Blocks for High-Performance, High-Capacity Virtual SAN Workloads

HGST is the leader in Enterprise SAS SSDs and Helium HDDs, delivering innovation to the fast growing storage market. VMware VSAN customers can now incorporate these leading technologies to meet the demands for more efficient storage environments, creating a better balance between capacity, performance, physical space and energy usage in their Virtual SAN deployment. With the certified PCIe, 12Gb/s SAS SSD and HDDs, as well as the industry’s only helium-filled HDD, customers have the ability to customize and tier their infrastructure deployment for mission-critical, high-performance applications.

“As one of the first storage solutions providers to offer certified devices for use with VMware Virtual SAN environments, we remain committed to expanding our portfolio to the VMware ecosystem,” said Ulrich Hansen, vice president of SSD product marketing, HGST. “Today, we’re offering the industry a broad certified storage portfolio that allows customers of all sizes to leverage the advanced technology and performance tiers of VMware Virtual SAN to drive real-time insights from the increasing volume, velocity, variety and longevity of data across all infrastructure environments.”

The VMware Compatibility Guide includes the Ultrastar He6 SAS 512n, from the industry’s only family of Ultrastar helium-filled HDDs; the Ultrastar C10K1800 SAS 512n and Ultrastar C15K600 SAS 512n high performance HDDs; the entire HGST FlashMAX® PCIe SSD family; the HGST s1122 PCIe Accelerator; HGST S842 and S846 SAS SSDs; and HGST’s family of 12Gb/s SAS Ultrastar SSD800MH.B and Ultrastar SSD1600MM SSDs. All of these solutions offer VMware Virtual SAN customers the flexibility to granularly scale-up or scale-out their storage environment, while maintaining superior performance and endurance for mission-critical applications.