HGST DELIVERS BROAD VMWARE VIRTUAL SAN SUPPORT FOR ENTERPRISE AND CLOUD DATA CENTER

HGST, a Western Digital company announced a broad portfolio of certified devices for VMware Virtual SAN™, VMware’s software-defined storage product. The HGST hardware certification list includes 12Gb/s SAS solid state drives (SSDs), PCIe Flash accelerators, as well as performance and capacity hard disk drives (HDDs) from the company’s Ultrastar family, including the industry’s only helium-filled HDD product line. Together, these certified devices provide interoperable storage tiers for VMware Virtual SAN.

The VMware Compatibility Guide includes the Ultrastar He6 SAS 512n, from the industry’s only family of Ultrastar helium-filled HDDs;  theUltrastar 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.

“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.”