KIOXIA SSDs Achieve Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Certification

Company’s NVMe and 24G SAS SSDs Successfully Tested with Windows Server 2022 Software-Defined Data Center Solutions

  • December 14, 2022
  • Kioxia Corporation

Tokyo – Kioxia Corporation today announced that its KIOXIA CM6 and KIOXIA CD6 Series of PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ SSDs, and KIOXIA PM6 Series of 24G SAS SSDs have earned Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) certification. This designation enables these KIOXIA SSDs to be used with Windows Server 2022 SDDC solutions utilizing Storage Spaces Direct. Certification testing ensures the compatibility and performance of KIOXIA SSDs.

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is a feature of Windows Server that creates a software-defined storage solution, combining SSDs on clustered servers and allowing the sharing of storage resources in converged and hyperconverged IT infrastructures. Users can scale out storage capacity by adding more drives or more servers in the cluster. Storage Spaces Direct automatically onboards the new drives and rebalances the storage pool.
 

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