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HGST is a Vendor with both Enterprise HDDs and SSDs Certified to Enable VMware VSAN Environments to Leverage Shared Data Faster and More Reliably
October 2014 by Marc Jacob
Helping the world harness the power of data, HGST, a Western Digital company announced that multiple devices from its SAS enterprise hard disk drives (HDDs), as well as PCIe and SAS solid state drives (SSDs) have been certified by VMware as interoperable storage tiers for VMware Virtual SAN™. VMware Virtual SAN is a new hypervisor-converged, storage platform for VMware vSphere® environments that brings the benefits of software-defined storage to the data center. Leveraging certified HGST HDD and SSD solutions, customers have access to the only high-capacity, high-performance, high-resilience storage portfolio designed to be flash-accelerated for virtual environments.
The HGST drive certification for VMware Virtual SAN involved a five-stage process that included review, performance, reliability, compatibility and overall integrity. The certification process ensures that the overall solution meets VMware Virtual SAN customer expectations. There are specific certification tracks for SAS and PCIe drives and HGST is now the only vendor to have VMware Virtual SAN certification for its SAS HDDs and SSDs, as well as its PCIe SSDs. Listed within the VMware Compatibility Guide, the Ultrastar® C10K1200, HGST s1122 PCIe Accelerator, HGST FlashMAX® family and HGST S842 SAS SSDs 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.
