Huawei's OceanStor Converged Storage Solutions Certified for VMware vSphere 6.0 and VVOL

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei today announced at VMworld 2015 that the Huawei OceanStor converged storage portfolio – including the 18000 series, V3 series, Dorado series and VIS series – has been certified for VMware vSphere^® 6.0 virtual platform and Virtual Volumes (VVOL).

Huawei's storage arrays for the OceanStor solutions have passed the required vSphere 6.0 certifications, enabling VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) for Block, VAAI for Network Attached Storage (VAAI NAS), Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA), and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).

Huawei's OceanStor storage platform has also achieved certification for VVOL, allowing granularity and flexibility in how storage is consumed by virtual environments.  

Outlined below are the advantages of the Huawei OceanStor solutions for the VMware vSphere 6.0 platform:

• Optimized path management policy – Huawei's OceanStor UltraPath software has been officially certified by VMware and can provide better input/output (I/O) performance and reliability in managing Huawei storage array paths than the native multipath I/O (MPIO) software.
• More flexible networking – Huawei's OceanStor V3 series converge Storage Area Network (SAN) and NAS protocols, meeting customers' diversified requirements in building Fibre Channel (FC), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and Network File System (NFS) networks. 
• Higher return on investment – OceanStor arrays can seamlessly support vSphere 6.0 and all its features without complicated upgrades. They can also employ vSphere vMotion to non-disruptively migrate data across data centers that span an ultra-long distance and reduce the migration network round-trip time (RTT) to 100ms.

"We thrive to be the chosen storage platform for VMware, and year after year we make a big investment in engineering so we can provide a broad solution portfolio for VMware customers," said Mr. Fan Ruiqi, the president of Huawei Storage product line. "With our latest product release and the certification for Virtual Volumes and vSphere 6.0, Huawei is well positioned to take a leadership role, providing customers with reliable and trustworthy VMware solutions that will help them to build next generation software-defined storage (SDS) enterprise-class data centers with excellent scalability, performance, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services." 

The OceanStor converged storage portfolio is available in the US and globally. Huawei's VVOL-ready storage solutions will ship in Q4 2015.

To learn more about the OceanStor solutions and products, please visit Huawei at Booth 535 at VMworld 2015 US in the Moscone Center in San Francisco from August 30 to September 3, 2015.

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