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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