New Solution for Business Critical Applications
and Databases Delivers 3 Million New Orders Per Minute on All-Flash
Virtual SAN 61
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today unveiled three new reference architectures
for VMWare Virtual SAN™ 6 utilizing solid state drives (SSD) and
Fusion ioMemory™ PCIe application accelerators. When coupled with
VMware Virtual SAN 6, SanDisk’s PCIe and SSD-based solutions allow
customers to deploy business critical applications, databases,
virtual desktops and other IT workloads with less effort, while
gaining exceptional performance on VMware’s hyper-converged and
cost-effective VMware Virtual SAN software-defined storage
infrastructure.
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“SanDisk is addressing the challenges of latency and cost
efficiency in the data center with our all-flash VMware Virtual SAN
reference architectures, which allow customers to expand the
workloads they can run on all-flash and hybrid-flash storage at
significantly lower costs,” said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice
president and general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions,
SanDisk. “These new solutions are prime examples of how
SanDisk continues to collaborate with VMware. We look
forward to working with our mutual partners to help customers
experience the significant benefits of the flash-transformed,
software-defined data center.”
By using SanDisk flash-based offerings with VMware solutions,
customers are able to consolidate IT footprint, while increasing
application quality of service (QoS), deriving huge benefits from
server virtualization and virtual desktops. For example, SanDisk
customers have already been able to: increase support for
concurrent users by 3X2; increase virtual desktop density by 4X3;
reduce power and cooling by 16X1; and, achieve 40X4 faster report
generation. Now with software-defined storage, according to
Gartner, by 2017 one-third of midmarket organizations will deploy
VMware Virtual SAN for at least 30 percent of their total storage
capacity5. Businesses cannot afford for mission-critical
applications to be sluggish. These VMware validated reference
architectures for business critical applications, databases and
desktop virtualization will allow customers to deploy with
confidence, while lowering storage TCO by up to 50 percent6.
“Flash is a key enabler for software-defined storage, allowing
customers to get high performance and reliability out of their IT
infrastructure,” said Charles Fan, senior vice president and
general manager, Storage and Availability, VMware. “Together,
VMware and SanDisk are making it easier for customers to accelerate
the performance of their applications and fully experience the
benefits of software-defined storage.”
The new reference architectures utilizing SanDisk SATA, SAS and
PCIe application accelerator solutions with VMware Virtual SAN to
be demonstrated at VMworld® 2015 include:
- Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Solution with All-Flash Virtual SANThis new 4-node reference
architecture utilizes SanDisk’s 4TB Optimus MAX™ - the industry’s
highest capacity SSD that is certified for Virtual SAN 67 - on a
Lenovo System x3650 M5 server platform. In a performance test
conducted by SanDisk, Lenovo, VMware, and Avago, all-flash 4-node
configuration delivered 3.08 million New Orders per Minute (NOPMs)
and 14.1 million transactions per minute (TPMs) using eight virtual
machines executing Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition. The
HammerDB performance tuning and benchmarking tool was used to run a
5000 Warehouse TPC-C like workload.8
- VMware Horizon® Virtual Desktop and
Applications Solution with All-Flash Virtual SANSanDisk co-led
the development of this virtual desktop infrastructure reference
architecture utilizing SanDisk’s Lightning® Gen. II SSDs and Dell
R730 G13 servers. This solution was tested to run 800 Horizon 6
Desktops on a starter 4-node cluster with VMware, Avago and
Brocade. The solution fuels VMware Horizon® 6 virtual desktops and
applications at a significantly lower TCO when compared to
traditional HDD-based storage solutions. Similarly, when tested, a
starter 4-node configuration deployed 24 desktops per minute in a
boot storm situation, bringing up 850 desktops in 35 minutes. This
is the industry’s first 800 virtual desktop solution running on an
end-to-end 12G all-flash VSAN Cluster.9
- Horizon Virtual Desktop Solution
with Hybrid VMware Virtual SANThis is a reference architecture
tested in conjunction with HP and VMware, utilizing HP ProLiant
DL360 Gen9 servers and SanDisk’s high performance Fusion ioMemory
PCIe application accelerators for caching in a hybrid VMware
Virtual SAN cluster. In a performance test conducted using VMware
Horizon 6.1, the View Planner benchmarking and workload generator
with a 3-node cluster, the solution delivered fast application
performance and response times to support the maximum number of
virtual desktops with all responses under the recommended
performance thresholds.
A video by SanDisk and VMware executives on these new solutions
is available here. Further details on these reference architectures
are also provided in a series of blogs by SanDisk, VMware and other
partners’ site. For more information on the role of flash in VMware
Virtual SAN environments, check out this webinar. Additional
details on SanDisk’s solutions for virtualization and virtual
desktop infrastructures can be found on company’s website or
enterprise blog. For information on Fusion ioMemory PCIe
application accelerators, SanDisk Optimus MAX 4TB SSDs and SanDisk
Lightning Gen. II 12 gb/s SAS SSD, visit
http://www.sandisk.com/enterprise/.
SanDisk at VMworld 2015
To learn more and experience the power of the flash-accelerated,
software-defined data center, please visit SanDisk in booth #1920
during VMworld, taking place at the Moscone Convention Center in
San Francisco, August 30-September 3, 2015. You can join Serge
Shats for session STO5704 on “Using Virtual Data Services for IO
Acceleration in vSphere,” taking place on Monday, August 31, from
12:30 – 1:30 PM; panel session VAPP5737 with industry experts such
as Tarkan Maner and Rawlinson Rivera on Software Defined Storage,
from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM on Tuesday, September 1; or our two
Solution Exchange sessions on Wednesday, September 2: FlashSoft
1:50 – 2:10 PM and All Flash Virtual SAN from 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM;
and session STO5157 on “Running Business Critical Applications with
VMware All Flash Virtual SAN” on Thursday, September 3 from 12:00PM
to 1:00PM. SanDisk will also be showcasing its newest FlashSoft
software solution during Tech Field Day Extra with Stephen Foskett
taking place on Tuesday afternoon from 3:30-4:30pm. SanDisk’s
Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and General
Manager of Enterprise Solutions, Sumit Sadana, will be speaking at
Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit at 9:35 AM on Thursday, September 3. You
can also see SanDisk solutions at work in our technology partner
booths including: VMware, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Nexenta, CloudByte,
Tegile, SIOS, Supermicro and Maxta. For more details on SanDisk’s
presence and solutions for VMworld, visit:
http://www.sandisk.com/events/vmworld-us/.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500
company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more
than 27 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage,
providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the
electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art
solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data
centers, and embedded in advanced smart phones, tablets and PCs.
SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands
of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit
www.sandisk.com.
© 2015 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk, Fusion
ioMemory, Optimus MAX, Lightning, and others are trademarks of
SanDisk Corporation in the United States and other countries.
VMware, Horizon and Virtual SAN are registered trademarks or
trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other
jurisdictions. Other brand names mentioned herein are for
identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their
respective holder(s). The use of the word “partner” or
“partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship
between VMware and any other company.
This news release contains references and links to third-party
websites. SanDisk is not responsible for and cannot control those
websites.
1 Based on performance tests conducted by SanDisk, Lenovo,
VMware and Avago using HammerDB and SQL Server Database.
Performance results may vary according to system architecture,
configurations and applications.
2 TekSouth – USAF Data Warehouse Case Study
3 VMware Fast Track 2.0 Validated Reference Architecture: White
Paper
4 Quaker Maid Customer Case Study
5 “Gartner Predicts 2015: Midmarket CIOs Must Shed IT Debt to
Invest in Strategic Initiatives,’ Gartner Research, October
2014.
6 VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Data Sheet
7 Capacity verified using VMware HCL for Virtual SAN 6.
8 Performance results may vary according to system architecture,
configurations and applications.
9 VMware Horizon View and All Flash Virtual SAN Reference
Architecture Document
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