Nexenta, the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced its participation in the VMware Ready for vSAN program. Within Nexenta's VMworld Europe booth #S105, Nexenta will showcase NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, providing NFS and SMB file services for VMware Virtual SAN environments.

VMware Virtual SAN powers the industry's leading hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. Whether deployed as VxRail integrated appliances or as Virtual SAN Ready, Nodes, VMware Virtual SAN runs business critical applications in enterprise environments where file services are increasingly valuable.

"We are pleased to welcome Nexenta to the VMware Ready for vSAN program," said Lee Caswell, vice president, Storage and Availability Products, VMware. "Customers are looking for software-defined solutions that provide the broadest range of storage services and Nexenta's file services add an important capability to the software-defined data center powered by VMware Virtual SAN."

"VMware Virtual SAN provides the ideal platform for our NexentaConnect file services solution, and together, we are providing an exclusive promotion for validated VMware Virtual SAN customers. This includes a NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN license, unlimited raw storage capacity to match VMware Virtual SAN licenses and day-zero Nexenta technical support for 12 months," said Michael Letschin, field CTO at Nexenta. "Nexenta and VMware are driving innovation in virtualized environments and changing the industry by delivering flexibility, simplicity and lower cost of ownership for the Software-Defined Data Center."