Virtual SAN for VMware vSphere 6.0 is a new hypervisor-converged storage platform launched in March to deliver the benefits of software-defined storage to the data center. These eHDDs and eSSDs are optimized for mission-critical enterprise server and storage applications, and all capacity models have undergone VMware's rigorous validation process.

VMware-certified drives are validated to leverage the benefits of VMware Virtual SAN, including high performance and radically simplified storage deployments in software-defined data centers. Certification involves a five-stage process encompassing review, performance, reliability, compatibility, and overall integrity. With VMware Virtual SAN certification, these Toshiba eSSDs and eHDDs help bring the benefits of storage solutions to enterprise and SMB customers.

“Many customers are using virtualized environments to optimize the performance and utilization of the reliable Toshiba drives they already know and use,” said Martin Larsson, Vice President of Toshiba Electronics Europe in the storage products division. “Toshiba is pleased to work with VMware to certify our mission-critical eHDDs and eSSDs. This certification of the AL13SX 12Gbit/s SAS and PX03SN 12Gbit/s SAS series provides further assurance that customers can confidently use Toshiba HDDs and SSDs with vSphere® 6.0 to optimize the performance and utilization of these mission-critical storage resources.”

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