Hitachi VSP extends support to VMware VAAI

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, announced VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) support on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP).

“While other vendors may support VAAI, only Hitachi Data Systems has the external storage virtualization necessary to address our customers’ top business needs to optimize application performance and reduce IT costs,” said Hu Yoshida, CTO, Hitachi Data Systems.

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Thus HDS builds upon its July 2010 announcement of Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) family support for VMware vSphere 4.1.

“Competitive approaches require customers to ‘rip and replace’ existing infrastructures and go through the painstaking process of migrating hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines to benefit from VAAI. The 3D scaling architecture of Hitachi VSP allows customers to scale up, out and deep to take immediate benefit of VAAI to improve virtual machine density, scalability and virtualized application performance,” he added.