If I were a gambling man, I’d place my bet on #HCI winning the infrastructure race over the next year. For those of you that haven’t started down the #hyperconverged path, then #VMworld is the perfect time to learn more … and what better place to make a bet than Vegas! This year, we at #WesternDigital will highlight how we’re working closely with the #vSAN team to help more of you modernize your data center. Three Highlights You Shouldn’t Miss Newest Flash Technology Ready on Day 0 for vSAN From PCIe/NVMe™, SAS and SATA flash and all the way to innovative SMR, Helium and air-filled HDDs, we offer a broad selection of certified drives for vSAN®, HCI and cloud solutions. You’ll find capacities ranging from 300GB to the world first 12TB[1] HDD, and flash devices up to 7.68TB with the capability of performing up to 1.2M Read IOPS per device. Visit us at our VMworld booth to learn how these devices can be used in your next server refresh to enable an HCI solution powered by vSAN. Our experts will help you find the best performing and most cost-efficient device for your workload and software stack. Performance Results with Proven vSAN Devices and Configurations (Spoiler Alert: HCI is Fast!) Second, you can speak to our storage experts on how we test hyper-converged solutions like vSAN using our performance testbeds in our Data Propulsion Lab™ to bring definitive data to vSAN administrators and ReadyNode design teams. Learn more about our testing learnings here. We have worked closely with various server OEM companies, like Lenovo™, HPE and Cisco®, to deliver proven reference architectures and vSAN ReadyNodes™. At VMworld, we will talk about three vSAN cluster testbeds from different server companies. One example is the configuration below using Lenovo System X 3650 M5 series servers and various SAS SSDs from our Ultrastar® family. In this configuration we tested the delivery of over 650,000 Read IOPS on a 4-node cluster with 4 disk groups per node and over 1 million Read IOPS on an 8-node cluster with 2 disk groups per node[2].  Fig 1: One of the three vSAN Clusters in the Data Propulsion Lab vSAN Test Bed – over 1 million Read IOPS on an 8-node cluster Another example, below, is an all-NMVe vSAN configuration. We’re proud to be a leader in NVMe technology. Just last week, we received the PCIe NVMe SSDs award at the Flash Memory Summit, voted by IT professionals from around the world. NVMe is a disruptive technology, and VMworld will be a great opportunity to understand how it can greatly benefit your vSAN or HCI solution. In our booth, you’ll be able to see an all-flash, all-NVMe -powered vSAN solutions delivering 61TB of all-NVMe flash capacity on a 2U unit!  Fig 2: One of the vSAN-Driven Solutions using HGST PCIe NVMe Drives on show at VMworld Enabling Cloud to Edge with vSAN Lastly, come see how our products and solutions are used all the way from edge devices and data centers to the public clouds. Whether it is our NVMe SSDs that deliver performance and low latency optimized for hyperscale data centers and cloud workloads, our CloudSpeed™ II SATA SSDs with superior performance or high-capacity helium HDDs – our solutions are heavily relied on by cloud providers as an essential part of their infrastructure to run VMware Cloud, vSAN and ESXi.
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