Nexenta Supports VMware Virtual SAN

Nexenta Systems, Inc. announced that its NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN has been upgraded to offer day one support for VMware Virtual SAN 6.

Nexenta’s SDS solution, which simplifies and streamlines the provisioning of file services utilising VMware Virtual SAN, offers twice the performance – boosting users ability to create a hyper-converged solution without paying for expensive external storage arrays.

Launched in March 2014, VMware Virtual SAN was created for vSphere environments as the first policy-driven storage product to automate manual storage tasks.

This latest release, launched in conjunction with vSphere 6,
offers benefits that NexentaConnect takes advantage of:

• All-flash architecture
• New Virtual SAN performance snapshots and clones
• Rack awareness for greater resiliency
• Expanded scalability in blade environments through direct-attached JBODs
• 2x greater scale with 64 node cluster support
• 2x-4x more IO/s making VMware Virtual SAN and NexentaConnect more suitable for apps which require consistent response times
  

Sitting on top of VMware Virtual SAN, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN operates with and augments VMware Virtual SAN by adding enterprise Windows and Unix based file services without the need for any additional hardware purchases. NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN completes hyper-converged VMware Virtual SAN deployments by utilising local storage in servers to deliver NFS and SMB file services to VMs and virtual desktops, all managed through a single VMware vCentre Server console.

“Through its latest support for VMware Virtual SAN 6, Nexenta continues to define the latest trends in storage and address the needs of today’s SDS market,” said Simon Robinson, research VP at 451 Research LLC. “Nexenta’s latest integration efforts with VMware offers a smart answer to today’s complex storage challenges, empowering an enterprise to quickly get to its virtualisation goals.“

Gaetan Castelein, senior director, storage product management and marketing, VMware, Inc., said: “Nexenta supports our vision of software-defined storage through which VMware plans to bring to storage the same efficiency that vSphere brought to compute. VMware Virtual SAN is at the core of VMware’s strategy for storage. NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN complements VMware Virtual SAN, creating a hyper-converged unified storage solution for the data centre of the future.“

Thomas Cornely, chief product officer, Nexenta, said: “This announcement enables joint customers of NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN and VMware Virtual SAN 6 to receive support from day one, enabling streamlined management of file services, recovery nodes and compatibility to VMware EVO: RAIL, which combines compute, networking and storage resources in an all-in-one hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, and ultimately doubles the performance.“

“The demand for SDS solutions, optimised for virtualisation is growing across organisations in every industry, creating a heightened demand for Nexenta’s open source solutions,” Joe Brown, president, Accelera Solutions, Inc. “We’re looking forward to working with Nexenta to bring NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN to large and small organisations that are looking for highly reliable, available and scalable technology to meet ever-changing data centre requirements.”

“NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN advances our goal to increase the availability and performance of data and storage across a variety of infrastructure environments,” said Steve Fingerhut, VP, enterprise solutions marketing, SanDisk Corp. “Nexenta’s latest Virtual SAN solution extends the performance enhancing power of our Optimus Gen. II Extreme SSDs with value-added: Software-Defined Storage solutions that enable businesses to make the most of their IT budgets.“

“Supermicro’s latest Ultra, TwinPro, FatTwin and SuperBlade solutions optimised for VMware Virtual SAN 6 maximise storage performance, efficiency and density in scale-out virtualised environments,” said Wally Liaw, Sr. VP sales, Super Micro Computer, Inc.. “Combining our Virtual SAN hybrid, all-flash or industry only hot-swap NVMe architecture with NexentaConnect, we are enabling rapid deployment of the most advanced, hyper-converged infrastructure for SDDC, IaaS and public, private cloud service applications.“