Samsung SAS SSD Certified With VMware

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that its SM1625, a SSD with high density and low power consumption has been certified by VMware, Inc. as an optimized solution for VMware Virtual SAN.

The SM1625 SSD, Samsung’s first dual-ported SAS SSD with densities of up to 800GB, has been certified for Virtual SAN for use in data centers and other enterprise applications. Virtual SAN is a new offering that allows customers to pool server disks and flash resources to create a resilient, performance and dynamic shared storage solution for VMs.

“VMware Virtual SAN provides customers a simpler and more flexible tier of storage for their VMs,” said John Gilmartin, VP, cloud infrastructure products, VMware. “By clustering flash and DAS, VMware Virtual SAN provides a shared storage solution that is high-performing, cost-effective, and seamlessly integrated into VMware vCenter Server. We are pleased to have Samsung’s SM1625 SSD as a high-performance storage option for our joint customers.”

“We are very enthusiastic about this SM1625 certification as the basis for partnering with VMware to offer a SAS storage solution for the enterprise,” said JaeHyeong Lee, VP of memory product planning and application engineering, Samsung Electronics. “We will work closely with not only our OEM customers but also global software companies such as VMware in looking to develop high performing and environmentally-friendly IT systems for data center applications and enterprise storage.”

The certified SAS SM1625 enterprise storage, which is produced using 20nm class technology, can read data sequentially at 950MB/s. In addition, it has a random read speed of 120,000 IO/s. It can handle up to 10 drive writes per day, an endurance rate that covers a typical warranty period for five years.

By utilizing 20nm-class technology, the drive provides up to 200 times greater power efficiency than conventional (15k rpm) HDDs, and also comes with power loss protection to ensure data is safe in a power outage..

The SM1625 is available in densities of 100GB, 200GB, 400GB and 800GB.

Samsung will continue to partner with VMware to offer other performance, power saving SSDs with storage optimized features, such as V-NAND and NVMe SSDs for use with VMware infrastructure.

Samsung will work with not only OEM customers but also global software companies in developing theperforming and environmentally-friendly IT systems for data center applications and enterprise storage.