Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Western Digital Launches All-flash VMware Virtual SAN with HPE

Western Digital introduced a software-defined, all-flash storage solution featuring HPE ProLiant DL Rack Servers and VMware Virtual SAN™ running SQL Server 2016 workloads.

The virtualized storage and server infrastructure solution uses SanDisk’s enterprise-grade flash storage products and has demonstrated online transaction processing (OLTP) performance results of 2.4 million New Orders Per Minute (NOPM).


“We are excited to raise the bar in the industry with a compelling hyper-converged infrastructure solution that runs the new Microsoft SQL Server 2016 software -- the most virtualized database in the industry,” said Anand Jayapalan, vice president of SanDisk client and enterprise compute solutions marketing at Western Digital. “Our collaboration with HPE and VMware enabled us to deliver optimal certified Virtual SAN all-flash options from our broad portfolio of products. ”

https://www.sandisk.com/business/datacenter/products