Pavilion Data Systems, a leader in NVMe-Over-Fabrics, today announced release 2.3 of its award-winning Hyperparallel
Flash Array with VMware Ready status. The no-compromise enterprise
storage platform now supports a complete suite of data management features for
consolidation of VM sprawl and native Container Storage Interface (CSI) for
simplified migration to PKS, Docker and Kubernetes containers. Release 2.3
includes native VMware support for vCenter, VMware Ready support for NFS along
with backward compatibility for block-based iSCSI connectivity. The
company will be demonstrating integration of the VMware NVMe-Over-RDMA inbox
driver support at VMworld Europe in Barcelona, booth #G209, November 4-7, 2019.
The system is capable of
supporting hundreds of thousands of Virtual Machines across 72 standard NVMe
SSDs with capacities reaching 1+ PB using 16 TB NVMe drives. All of
the Pavilion data management functions, including snapshots, thin provisioning,
encryption and RAID-6 volume provisioning are now enabled under VMware vCenter
for simplicity of scaling and consolidating enterprise VM sprawl.
One of the customers for
Pavilion's VMware consolidation is the Netherlands Central Bureau of
Statistics (CBS). CBS selected Pavilion over several traditional
all-flash arrays based on performance and footprint manageability. Ian
Schets, product manager of infrastructure at CBS, along with Kasper van
Beem, project leader, New Data Center Initiatives at CBS,will be speaking on Wednesday, November 6, at 15:30
local time about the deployment of Pavilion's Hyperparallel Flash Array.
"CBS has been using Pavilion
for several months. Compared to the more traditional alternative in the
industry, we are able to shrink our data center footprint 16 times and reduce
our costs by more than 70 percent," said Schets. "Pavilion's Hyperparallel
Flash Array allows us to expand our data sets, increase the number of virtual
machines and still deliver extremely high IOPS at latencies from host, across
network, through the Pavilion array and onto NVMe SSDs at proven latencies less
than 1 millisecond."
"VMware is a leader in
datacenter innovation and is pleased to work with Pavilion, a leader
in high-performance storage, to support its Hyperparallel Flash Array
for the benefit of customers like Statistics Netherlands (CBS)," said Sudhanshu
Jain, group product line manager, Cloud Platform, VMware.
"High-performance
storage requires high-performance networks and we are excited to collaborate with
Pavilion on running their NVMe-oF systems over our storage networking
solutions," said Motti Beck senior director, Enterprise Market Development at
Mellanox. "Pavilion supports multiple protocols and different communication
standards in the same system and at the same time. This requires fast, agile
and flexible networks that enable high scalability, easy deployments and makes
Pavilion's advanced NVMe-oF storage systems, ready for the emerging data
intensive workloads."
"Release 2.3 extends Pavilion's
leadership from webscale and HPC customers directly into the heart of the
Fortune 100 where VMware is the predominant operating environment," said
Gurpreet Singh, Pavilion CEO. "By natively supporting VMware NFS,
demonstrating the upcoming VMware-native NVMe-oF functionality and enabling all
of our data management functions inside vCenter, we enable orders of magnitude
more consolidation than the nearest competitor and simplify operations in a
familiar way for VMware administrators."
Release 2.3 has been beta
tested with numerous customers worldwide and is available immediately.