Flexible and Scalable Storage for Your VMware Workloads
Great news for businesses needing more storage flexibility in the cloud! Google Cloud VMware Engine now offers storage-only nodes, providing a dedicated and scalable solution for your growing storage needs.
What are Storage-Only Nodes?
Storage-only nodes are specialized nodes in your Google Cloud VMware Engine private cloud that are dedicated to providing storage capacity. They don’t run any compute workloads, allowing you to scale your storage independently of your compute resources.
Key Benefits
- Independent Scaling: Scale your storage capacity up or down without affecting your compute resources.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Optimize your costs by only paying for the storage you need.
- Simplified Management: Easily manage your storage resources within your familiar VMware environment.
- Enhanced Performance: Benefit from high-performance storage optimized for your VMware workloads.
Ideal Use Cases
- Data-intensive applications: Support applications that require large amounts of storage, such as databases, data warehouses, and multimedia repositories.
- Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI): Provide ample storage for user profiles and data in your VDI environment.
- Disaster recovery: Maintain a highly available and scalable storage solution for your disaster recovery needs.
Learn More
To learn more about how to use storage-only nodes in your Google Cloud VMware Engine environment, check out the official documentation:
Use Storage-Only Nodes in Google Cloud VMware Engine
Summary
With the general availability of storage-only nodes, Google Cloud VMware Engine provides a more flexible and scalable storage solution for your VMware workloads. This new feature allows you to optimize your costs, simplify management, and ensure that your applications have the storage resources they need to perform at their best.