World’s first 32 Node All Flash Virtual SAN with NVMe

If you've wondered how many virtual machines (VMs) you can deploy in a single rack, or thought how you can scale VMs across an entire enterprise then you may be interested to know what Intel and VMware are doing. While not all enterprises have the same level of scale, there’s no doubt that technology around hyper-converged storage is changing. What you may not realize, though, is there are changes in the way servers and storage are being used that impact scale to the needs of medium and large enterprises.

Virtualization and the Storage Bottleneck

Many enterprises have turned to virtualized applications as a way to cost-effectively deploy services to end users; delivering email, managing data bases, and performing analytical analysis on big data sets are just some examples. Using virtualization software, such as that from VMware, enterprises can lower IT cost of ownership by enabling increased virtual machine scalability and optimizing platform utilization. But as with any technology or operational change, there are often implementation and scaling challenges. In the case of virtualized environments, storage bottlenecks can cause performance problems, resulting in poor scaling and inefficiencies.

All Flash Team Effort

The bottleneck challenge involves scaling the adoption of virtual machines and its infrastructure, all while providing good user performance. Such problems are not just faced by larger enterprise IT shops, but small to medium business as well. Intel and VMware teamed together to deliver a robust, scalable All Flash Virtual SAN architecture.

Using a combination of the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Solid State Drives (SSDs), and VMware Virtual SAN, SMB to large enterprise customers are now able to roll out an All Flash Virtual SAN solution that not only provides a scalable infrastructure, but also blazing performance and cost efficiency.

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The world’s first 32 node All Flash Virtual SAN using the latest NVMe technology will be displayed and discussed in depth during EMC World in Las Vegas May 4-7. The all flash Virtual SAN is built-up with 64 Intel® Xeon® E5-2699 v3 processors each with an Intel® SSD DC P3700 Series NVMe cache flash drive fronting 128 of Intel’s follow-on 1.6TB data center SSDs. Offering over 50 terabytes of cache and 200 terabytes of data storage, it produces an impressive 1.5 Million IOPS. This design will surely impress the curious IT professional.

Chuck Brown, Ken LeTourneau, and John Hubbard of Intel will join VMware experts to showcase this impressive 32Node All Flash Virtual SAN on Tuesday, May 5 and Wednesday May 6 from 11:30-5:30pm each day in the Solutions Expo, VMware Booth #331. Be sure to stop by and speak to the experts and learn how to design an enterprise scale, all flash Virtual SAN storage.