The complete VAAI support can greatly offload IO from ESXi server  (a product series of Vmware) to storage systems by reducing the redundant IO paths, overheads and server CPU cycles. In addition, there are tremendous performance and efficiency gains by better integration with hardware and the speeding up of provisioning new virtual machines. Also, the VAAI support significantly increases VM density by the improved scalability and reliability.

“Qsan has its complete product lines through the Vmware Vsphere 6.0 tests in the shortest time possible, in order to provide the latest and best security mechanism.” said Daniel Lin, Sales director at Qsan. “Vmware Vsphere 6.0 enhances data protection and replications, to ensure that customers have better protection to avoid disasters occuring in Vmware virtualised environments.”

Through integration with VAAI, Vmware host is now able to pass the I/O processes that highly occupy CPU resources to the storage arrays connected at the backend and the system resource can be released for resources demanding VMs and applications on top of the VMs. Thus the performance of the storage array itself appears to be more and more important for handling the workloads passed from the Vmware host via VAAI instantly. Powered by Intel Xeon CPU, Aegis SAN LX offers efficient IOPS and throughputs. With hardware RAID and QiSOE, the 6Gb/s-SAS Aegis SAN LX storage systems best meet the critical business requirements to process huge amounts of IO.

Apart from the basic three options in VAAI: HW assisted locking, full copy and block zero, the latest firmware from Qsan also provides Qthin (Qsan thin provision) feature so that the VAAI thin provisioning function has also been integrated

Trio NAS LX, Qsan's business-class unified storage, provides generic NAS data sharing across multiple platforms, as well as block device access possibility available from iSCSI/FC SAN units. Trio NAS LX incorporate enterprise-level ZFS file systems to ensure data consistency and avoid the file system crashes which are common in many legacy Linux EXT4-based NAS solutions. Furthermore, all Qsan NAS products are now Vmware ready certified. Support for VAAI for block will begin to be available through various models and VAAI for NAS will also be supported in the near future to provide an even better integration between Trio NAS and Vmware products.