Virident Shipping Already Announced PCIe FlashMAX II SSD

Virident Systems, Inc. announced the availability and shipping of FlashMAX II, the second generation of its PCIe SSDs for the enterprise.

It supports Linux, Windows, and VMware ESXi and VDI environments for optimal performance of VMs and virtualized desktops. It features high capacity in a low-profile form factor, unconditional performance and twice the performance density as the nearest competitor.
 
"The new Virident FlashMAX II provides even better performance, higher capacity and a nice Linux driver, so it definitely meets my expectations," said Kevin Kwast, chief data architect at Indeed. "Indeed.com is the number-one job site worldwide, so high performance and reliability is essential to us. Virident has become our preferred SSD vendor; we’ve been very happy with their performance, responsiveness and support."
 
FlashMAX II includes these features:

• Performance: Sustained, predictable and consistent high levels of performance are achieved across a range of applications and workloads at all capacity utilization levels. Alleviates the severe I/O bottlenecks caused by boot storms and login storms
• Capacity: FlashMAX II can deliver 2.2TB of capacity in a low-profile form factor
• Management: Unlike competing solutions, 100% of the capacity available on a FlashMAX II card is available as a single host volume on the server, without having to leverage third-party software RAID products to stripe across multiple drives
• Global and local wear leveling: To maximize the lifetime of the flash media, whenever needed FlashMAX II with vFAS software relocates data to areas of flash that are less used

"As organizations scale to hundreds and thousands of desktops, VDI workloads can overwhelm storage devices and cause severe performance degradation," said Shridar Subramanian, VP, product marketing, Virident. "By provisioning virtual desktops on very high-performing FlashMAX II, many of the VDI storage bottlenecks can be eliminated. Now organizations implementing VDI can realize unprecedented gains with high performance, ease of deployment and scalability as well as a low cost of ownership."

 
There are benefits in leveraging FlashMAX II flash storage for a VDI implementation using VMware View, compared to a traditional VDI implementation leveraging legacy storage arrays, including:

• Two times better VM density. Increased VM-density leads to better cost per VM, a key metric in VDI deployments. For example, a modern two-socket Sandy Bridge server with 256GB of RAM was able to handle provisioning of 250 VMs with FlashMAX II compared with 120 VMs using external storage.
• Four to six times better provisioning/recompose times. With similar configurations, the provisioning times for 250 VMs took less than 40 minutes, compared with more than two hours with external storage. This improved provisioning/recompose times eliminates end-user downtime and ensures that users become productive quickly after these operations.
• Application response times. It ensures that application response times are measured at far lower than 1ms. This means that end-users can get similar or better user experience compared to a physical desktop.

FlashMAX II starts at $6,000  and is available.

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