NVMe/TCP is increasingly seen as the natural successor to iSCSI, offering double-digit performance improvements for many workloads and minimizing new hardware requirements. VMware's mainstream support for NVMe/TCP was a major advancement announced last year with the release of vSphere version 7.0U3.
The new InfiniDAT certification reinforces the power of the InfiniBox architecture, which has been designed to support multiple protocols, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF). All of these protocols will be available with InfiniBox at no additional licensing cost, regardless of the type of storage used in the backend. With NVMe-oF, InfiniBox offers optimized, DRAM-based performance, whether using rotating storage systems or the new InfiniBox™ SSA II solid-state array, which delivers latencies as low as 35 microseconds.
For its part, vVols replication with InfiniBox is handled through VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), combining VMware's native disaster recovery with Infinidat's vVols implementation. SRM users can coordinate asynchronous InfiniBox replication for vVols without needing a separate Storage Replication Adapter (SRA). Meanwhile, Infinidat customers not running vVols can continue using InfiniBox's SRA to manage replication from InfiniBox at no additional cost.
