Greenliant’s G-card NVMe Flash Storage Products Achieved VMware Ready Status

Greenliant Systems, Ltd, in solid state storage products, announced that its G7100 Series G-card NVMe flash storage products have achieved VMware Ready status, and have been certified for VMware’s vSphere ESXi.

G-card is Greenliant’s high capacity NVMe flash storage solution designed for primary storage applications that require reliability with sustainable low-latency and high IO/s performance. G7100 Series G-card (G7101 and G7102) has achieved the highest level of endorsement by VMware and can be found on the VMware Solution Exchange (VSX).

Greenliant G7100 Series G-card
By maximizing the lifespan and reliability of 2-bits-per-cell (MLC) NAND flash, G-card offers enterprise and Internet datacenters a cost-effective tier-one primary storage solution. Building on Greenliant’s expertise in embedded storage, G-card complements the NANDrive and ArmourDrive SSD families to provide a portfolio of storage solutions. G-card utilizes Greenliant’s controller and an array of NANDrive SSDs in a standard PCIe add-in card form factor.

In contrast to other PCIe flash cards that use discrete NAND, G-card deploys distributed ECC architecture with each NANDrive building-block having its own ECC engine. This architecture improves scalability in card capacity, and also ensures sustainable performance and reliability during the product life. G-card is equipped with on-board hardware RAID to provide a system-level lifetime endurance of up to 10 Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD) for 5 years. With an intelligent power interrupt data protection circuit for the on-board buffer memory, G-card can commit host write operations without risk of data loss due to sudden power interruptions.

“G-card’s robust reliability and excellent scalability make it ideal for mission critical I/O intensive applications, such as big data analytics, VDI, online transaction processing (OLTP) and in-memory computing,” said Bing Yeh, CEO, Greenliant. “With VMware’s certification, our G7100 Series G-card is one of the first NVMe flash cards on the market to achieve VMware Ready status for the industry leading server virtualization platform vSphere ESXi 6.0 and 6.0 U1.“

Greenliant Systems is a VMware Elite Technology Alliance Partner (TAP). The TAP program provides VMware partners with a set of technical resources, tools and marketing support to deliver solutions on the VMware platform to joint customers. The VMware Ready certification helps customers identify qualified products and solutions which have met specific VMware interoperability standards and work with VMware infrastructure.