OCZ, Mellanox Report Deal for Collaboration to Optimize SAN-Less Fault Tolerant VMware Environments

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. OCZ, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, and Mellanox® Technologies MLNX, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center and storage systems, have collaborated together to deliver flash I/O storage performance and complete fault tolerance (FT) to VMware clusters on top of on-host server flash and hard disk drives (HDDs). These SAN-less, fault tolerant capabilities will be presented in OCZ's booth (#711) at VMworld 2013, Moscone Convention Center, today through August 29th. The combination of the Mellanox ConnectX®-3 EN 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network interface card (NIC) with OCZ's VXL Software replicates VMware datastores in virtualized SAN-less clusters. The combined solutions deliver industry-leading Ethernet connectivity, intelligent and efficient cache and flash volume distribution of PCI Express (PCIe) flash resources while enabling High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT) services of VMware clusters. To achieve this innovative capability, a virtualized environment containing two servers (with OCZ VXL 1.3.1 Software, OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe flash cards and Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN NICs in each) run virtualized enterprise loads that include such applications as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server. SAN-less HA and FT of this environment is maintained by VXL Software storage network sharing, high availability and mirroring capabilities using the high-speed, low latency Mellanox NIC to the secondary server.