Hi. My name is Aaron Delp, Cloud Solutions Architect at SolidFire. Today I'm going to
talk to you about the benefits of a VMware software defined data center running on SolidFire
storage. Storage is at the core of a software defined, next generation data center.
This data center requires a revolutionary storage architecture capable of responding
to the demands of greater infrastructure agility, complete system automation, guaranteed performance
and decreased application deployment times. The benefits of VMware plus SolidFire are
particularly compelling. Let's talk about the a few. First, SolidFire has deep integration
with VMware. SolidFire supports all four of VMware's VAAI block storage primitives allowing
the offload of optimized copy operations, optimized thin provisioning, assurance of
storage efficiency and realized multi-tenant performance enhancements.
When separating the control and data planes as required by a true software defined data
center, it is necessary to support holistic communication between the loosely couple components
of the system. SolidFire supports a VASA provides a tighter integration between our storage
and the virtual infrastructure. We're the only storage to integrate with vSphere Storage
IO control ensuring system-wide, end-to-end guaranteed performance.
Upon the release of VVOLs, SolidFire will be the first storage vendor to fully back
each and every VM with a volume including guaranteed performance.
Second, SolidFire is purpose built for the software defined data center. SolidFire's
completely rest based API means every aspect of the storage system can be automated speeding
deployment. In addition, your SolidFire cluster can be managed through our vCenter plug-in
where new volumes can be quickly provisioned. SolidFire performance virtualization decouples
performance from capacity, virtualizing each into separate resource pools that can be provisioned
as needed. These resources can be expended on demand without interruption or downtime
and data store performance can be adjusted without complex and time consuming storage
reconfiguration. Third, SolidFire enables end to end quality
of service. Predictable, guaranteed performance is only available with SolidFire and VMwave
environments. We are the first storage to integrate with vSphere Storage IO control.
SIOC rate limits VMs at the hypervisor level and couple with SolidFire's storage level
quality of service, application performance is guaranteed end to end.
QS enables nearly unlimited tier one applications to be consolidated onto a single SolidFire
cluster. You no longer have to over provision capacity and can now get more VMs per host
and utilize the entirety of a data store because of SIOC and QOS.
Lastly, VMware and SolidFire simplify management. Our virtualized storage has key advantages
over map storage. No raid, no IO blender, no IOPs calculations and easy data store sizing.
Sets all the fire up once, continue to scale and no longer worry about managing multiple
storage systems. SolidFire's scale out architecture makes growing
your VMware environment incredibly easy. As your physical capacity needs to grow, adding
new notes to a SolidFire cluster is completely non-disruptive. When a new note is added,
data's automatically re-balanced over the entire cluster, eliminating hot migrations
and ensuring availability all with no manual intervention.
To learn more, please visit solidfire.com and request a demo.