SolidFire got a nod last month from the Enterprise Strategy Group (News - Alert) as a good solution for next-generation storage in the data center. Now the company is making itself even more compelling to data center architects.
SolidFire, which develops all-flash storage systems for better performance and reliability, just announced that it now is interoperable with VMware’s vSphere Storage I/O Control.
SolidFire's storage quality-of-service (QoS) capabilities with vSphere Storage I/O Control enabled data center admins to designate, manage and deliver predictable VM performance from the host all the way through to the underlying SolidFire storage system, according to the company.
“SolidFire with vSphere Storage I/O Control provides a tunable and predictable storage infrastructure for each VM datastore,” noted Dave Wright, founder and CEO of SolidFire. “VMware managers can oversee provision storage policies within the virtual infrastructure that are then enforced down to each virtual disk in the SolidFire storage system. SolidFire uses vSphere Storage I/O Control to enable VMware's end-to-end performance control.”
Virtualization is a foundational element of the modern data center, so the interoperability makes SolidFire an even more appropriate choice for data center use. The interoperability enables automated storage performance allocation and manages minimum, maximum and burst performance based on per-VM Storage I/O Control requirements, dynamic performance allocation to datastores and on-the-fly adjustments to match any vSphere Storage I/O Control changes. Automated orchestration can also adjust volume IO/s allocation, matching each VM's vSphere Storage I/O Control settings even as those settings are changed and VMs are moved from datastore to datastore.
“If your organization is frustrated with the limitations of traditional storage for scale-out workloads and you're striving to deliver IT-as-a-Service from a next-generation data center, ESG Labs strongly recommends that you consider SolidFire for the enterprise,” noted the Enterprise Strategy Group in its June Report.
SolidFire is positioning itself as a compelling option indeed.
Edited by Rory J. Thompson