VSS2249PQ

The Viking Enterprise Solutions (VES) VSS2249PQ is a high-performance data storage solution designed to meet the demanding requirements of modern data centers, particularly those utilizing VMware virtualization. Its robust features and compatibility with VMware environments make it an ideal choice for businesses seeking reliable, scalable, and cost-effective storage solutions.

The VSS2249PQ is extremely fast storage server with 24 PCIe v4.0 NVMe drives and two servers supporting 96 PCIe lanes to the drives and 96 PCIe lanes to the network. The enclosure contains two hot swappable server modules. Each of the server modules includes an AMD EPYC™ CPU with two x16 PCIe v4.0 and up to 8 DIMMs. The VSS2249PQ fits into an industry standard 19” wide by 1m deep rack.

Key Features

• Validated and certified by VMware: Ensures seamless integration and optimal performance within VMware environments.
• Superior Performance: Delivers exceptional data transfer speeds and minimal latency for demanding applications.
• Robust Reliability: PCIe hot-plug support feature ensures virtualized workloads are always available.
• Scalability: Can easily adapt to growing storage needs, allowing for future expansion without disruption.
• Cost-Effective: Offers a competitive price point and efficient design to optimize IT investments.

Target Market

• Data Centers: Businesses of all sizes that require reliable and scalable storage solutions for their data center operations.
• Virtualized Environments: Organizations utilizing VMware virtualization platforms to consolidate and manage their IT infrastructure.
• Enterprise Applications: Businesses running mission-critical applications that demand high performance and data integrity.

Benefits

• Improved Efficiency by streamlined data management and reduced operational overhead.
• Enhanced Performance with faster application response times and improved user experience.
• Scalability that Future-proofs IT infrastructure to accommodate growth.
• Cost-Effectiveness, optimizes IT investments by providing a balance of performance and affordability.
• A hyper-converged solution portfolio that simplifies all aspects of infrastructure deployment in datacenters is now available with the latest innovations in processor, memory and storage technologies exceeding the requirements of many of the applications.
• Validated and certified by VMware for the latest versions, Viking Enterprise Solutions offers a multitude of ready-to-consume configurations for tier 1 mission critical, tier2/3 test-dev and disaster recover / VDI workloads.
• Further to meet the performance and TCO objectives of our customers, Viking Enterprise Solution offers flexibility in rightsizing the ESXi Ready Nodes for their current requirements yet with a clear granular and scalable path for future.

Competitive Advantages

• PCIe Hot-Plug Ready – With VSS2249P you can use the hotplug features to online or offline a device, even an on-board device, without physically adding or removing the device from the system. This is true Enterprise Grade Feature that makes your VMWare workload is always available.
• UEFI Secure Boot – Secure Boot in VSS2249P ensures only immutable and signed software are loaded during the boot time. Secure Boot leverages digital signatures to validate the authenticity, source, and integrity of the code that is loaded. These validation steps are taken to prevent malicious code from being loaded and to prevent attacks, such as the installation of certain types of rootkits
• SR-IOV Support – VSS2249PQ enables VMWare virtual machines to use SR-IOV virtual function for networking. The virtual machine and the physical adapter exchange data directly without using the VMkernel as an intermediary. Bypassing the VMkernel for networking reduces latency and improves CPU efficiency.
• Trusted Platform Module – VSS2249PQ supports Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) chips, which are secure cryptoprocessors that enhance host security by providing a trust assurance rooted in hardware as opposed to software. With TPM, VSS2249RQ attests to an ESXi host’s identity. Host attestation is the process of authenticating and attesting to the state of the host’s software at a given point in time. VSS2249PQ TPM chip records and securely stores measurements of the software modules booted in the system, which vCenter Server remotely verifies.
• DirectPath I/O – allows virtual machine access to physical PCI functions on platforms with an I/O Memory Management Unit. With DirectPath IO virtual machines can support Snapshots, Fault tolerance, High availability and DRS (limited availability).

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