HDS backs vSphere 5

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:18

Business IT - Technology

Hitachi Data Systems will add support for vSphere 5 to its enterprise storage products.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced VMware vSphere 5 integration for its Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 products. The company claims this will allow greater virtual machine density, flexibility, efficiency and performance in vSphere environments.

Furthermore, VSP extends these benefits to third-party storage arrays.

"Hitachi Data Systems and VMware share the vision that virtualisation is the foundational technology for cloud infrastructure and cloud computing," said Hu Yoshida, chief technology officer, Hitachi Data Systems.

"Being among the first vendors planning to integrate with VMware vSphere 5, HDS will ensure customers can continue to realise the maximum value from their VMware environments as deployments scale. The feature set of Hitachi storage platforms is ideal for virtual environments, providing customers with a foundation to flexibly and cost-effectively operate their data centres or private cloud infrastructures."

HDS integration with vSphere 5 will include support for VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) including more than 2TB with LUN, reclamation of blocks when a virtual disk is deleted, access to advanced functions for policy-based storage management, and hardware accelerated array-based replication.