Huawei Announces Availability of FusionServer with VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei today announced at VMworld® 2016 the availability of 12 VMware Virtual SAN™ Ready Node configurations on Huawei FusionServer.

Huawei's FusionServer RH2288H V3 and RH5885H V3 Virtual SAN Ready Nodes are validated server configurations for Virtual SAN deployment. VMware Virtual SAN is a hyper-converged software-defined storage solution that can be deployed on various x86 servers. It abstracts and pools server-side flash and disk into shared virtual data store with policy-based management and application-centric data services.

"Enterprise customers who want a converged platform with Virtual SAN Ready Node for cloud computing and key services with databases can turn to Huawei's FusionServer RH2288H V3 and RH5885H V3," said Qiu Long, President of Huawei IT Server Product Line. "Huawei's participation in the VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node program accelerates our customers' time-to-value."

Top reasons IT departments and enterprises choose Huawei FusionServer for Virtual SAN implementations include:

• Choice of hyper-converged infrastructure solutions
• Choice of Gen1 - 6G or Gen2 - 12G profiles
• Choice of small, medium or large workloads; virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) linked clone and VDI full clone configurations
• Option for all-flash configurations
• Support for Intel Xeon V3 processor

The VMware Virtual SAN certification is part of Huawei's overall strategy to provide enterprises with Huawei's highly efficient converged infrastructure, software-defined storage (SDS) capabilities and a pathway to hyper-converged infrastructure for virtualization and cloud applications. FusionServer RH2288H V3 is a 2U, 2-socket rack server that delivers high performance, large storage capacity, scalability, and is ideal for Internet, Big Data, cloud computing, virtualization, telecom services and mission-critical applications. FusionServer RH5885H V3 is a 4U four-socket rack server that supports Intel^® Xeon^® E7 v3 or v4 series processors with up to 96 cores and 6 TB memory capacity, boosting performance. It is ideal for mission-critical applications, such as databases, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence (BI), Big Data, and virtualization.

Huawei, which is participating as a partner and Silver sponsor at VMworld 2016, will have product experts on hand in Booth 961 to provide more information on Huawei's solutions for Virtual SAN Ready Node.

View all of Huawei's VMware Ready Nodes solutions on VMware's compatibility guide website http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php.

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