PernixData today announced PernixDrive, a partnership program for flash storage vendors that counts Intel, Kingston, and Toshiba among its initial members. PernixDrive vendors validate their flash storage for use in PernixData FVP hypervisor solutions that aggregate server-side flash across an enterprise to accelerate primary storage performance. PernixData also announced new support for VMware vSphere 5.5 and vSphere Web Client in the latest release of FVP.
PernixData today announced PernixDrive, a partnership program for flash storage vendors that counts Intel, Kingston, and Toshiba among its initial members. PernixDrive vendors validate their flash storage for use in PernixData FVP hypervisor solutions that aggregate server-side flash across an enterprise to accelerate primary storage performance. PernixData also announced new support for VMware vSphere 5.5 and vSphere Web Client in the latest release of FVP.
PernixData FVP optimizes I/O at the host level to reduce latency, giving administrators server-side flash resources and management to control virtualized application performance. FVP uses PernixData’s Flash Cluster technology to a host to remotely access the flash devices on any other host in the cluster. The PernixDrive program spans the development process from educational activities to shared development tools, engineering collaboration, interoperability testing, and joint trials.
With the announcement of vSphere 5.5 integration, FVP is now supported in environments using VMware 5.1.x and up. FVP operations are managed within vSphere or the vSphere Web Client, including flash cluster and performance management. FVP is supported throughout VMware’s suite of functionality including vMotion, DRS, HA, Snapshot, VDP, Site Recovery Manager, Horizon View, and vCloud Director.
