VMware Storage Servers

Established in 1998, VMware offers a variety of different software and applications for virtualisation.

Fully Compatible VMware Storage Appliances

When utilising VMware server virtualisation, a hypervisor is installed onto the physical server to enable the ability for many virtual machines (VMs) to run on the same physical server. Each VM is capable of running its own operating system, which essentially means that many operating systems can run on a single physical server. All of the VMs on the server share resources, like RAM and networking.




Our range of CyberStore enterprise-grade storage appliances are fully compatible with VMware storage OS.
VMware Storage Appliances

Established in 1998, VMware offers a variety of different software and applications for virtualisation.

  • Fully Compatible Storage Appliances
  • Pre-Configured with VMware
  • Fully Tested
  • Licence Cost:
    Free
CyberStore 212S 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 12 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
12 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
240TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with VMware
from: $4,209
Configure
CyberStore 212S-NVMe 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 12 Drive Bays, SAS/SATA Rackmount Storage Server with 4x NVMe

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
12 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
320TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with VMware
from: $4,525
Configure
CyberStore 224S 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 24 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
2.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
24 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
360TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with VMware
from: $4,908
Configure
CyberStore 316S 12GB/s Storage Server

3U, 16 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
3U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
16 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
320TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with VMware
from: $5,092
Configure
CyberStore 424S 12GB/s Storage Server

4U, 24 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
24 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
480TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with VMware
from: $5,269
Configure
CyberStore 472S 12GB/s Storage Server

Ultra High-Density 4U, 72 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
2.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
72 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
1.1PB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with VMware
from: $6,052
Configure
CyberStore 436S 12GB/s Storage Server

Large Capacity 4U, 36 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
36 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
720TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with VMware
from: $6,233
Configure
   
Broadberry CyberStore Xeon SP2-490-G3

Ideal for HPC, Big Data & Analytics. 3x PCI-E 4.0 x16 expansion slots. Redundant power supply. 90 3.5"/2.5" Hot-swap SAS3/SATA3 drives, 2x Fixed slim SATA SSD, 2x NVMe M.2.

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
90 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
1.9PB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with VMware
from: $12,766
Configure


Virtualisation represents a huge potential benefit to your business. There are more companies than ever before turning to virtualisation to improve the efficiency and reliability of their data centres. Some of the key advantages provided by virtualisation are –

  • Faster Recovery: In the rare case of a potentially catastrophic system failure, virtualisation allows for significantly faster recovery of IT resources. Leading to substantially increased business continuity and revenue.
  • Much Better Scalability: Virtualised environment were built for scalability, they allow for increased flexibility when it comes to organisational growth.
  • Cost and Space Saving: By taking advantage of virtualisation you make substantial savings on the cost of IT infrastructure, reduced technical personnel and energy. You also save space as you have less need to house an IT environment.
  • Better Return on Investment: The cost-effective nature of virtualisation combined with the improved disaster recovery speed leads to a better return on your investment.




Virtualising your IT with Broadberry CyberStore Appliances Configured with VMware.

Experience a reduction in the footprint of your IT infrastructures by utilising VMware and Broadberry CyberStore Storage Appliances.

As the virtualisation market has exploded in popularity, more and more businesses are making use of VMware. Offering benefits advantages in cost-effectiveness, reliability and efficiency, VMware can take your data centre to the next level.

Servers Built for VMware®

Fully compatible with VMware, our storage servers have been designed and built from the ground-up to run your virtualised IT infrastructure. Based on industry-compliant, enterprise-grade hardware, our CyberStore Storage Appliances are ideal for running VMware.


There are a large variety of features that make VMware vSphere a great choice to configure with your CyberStore Storage Appliance.

VMware ESXi

VMware vSphere includes VMware ESXi, a virtualisation layer that is run on physical servers. VMware ESXi abstracts storage, processor, memory, resources into various virtual machines.

VMware vCenter Server

The centre point for managing, provisioning and configuring virtualised IT environments is the VMware vCenter Server. It delivers vital data centre services such as access control, monitoring performance and alarm management.

The VMware vSphere Client

The VMware vSphere Client is an interface that allows users to connect remotely to ESXi or vCenter Server.

VMware vSphere Web Client

vCenter Server can be connected to remotely from numerous operating systems or web browsers through the VMware vSphere Web Client.

VMware vSphere SDKs

Standard interfaces for VMware and third-party solutions to access VMware vSphere are provided by VMware vSphere SDKs.

vSphere Virtual SMP

ESXi VMs can feature the vSphere Virtual Machine File System (VMFS), which is a cluster file system capable of high performance. vSphere Virtual SMP allows a single VM to utilise many physical processors simultaneously.


vSphere vMotion

Virtual machine that are powered on scan be migrated across physical servers with no down time with vSphere vMotion. Continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity are maintained. With vSphere Storage vMotion enables the migration of virtual machine files from a data centre to another without interruption to the service. The VM and all its disks can be put in a single location, or certain different locations for the VM configuration file and for each virtual disk. The VM stays on the same host during Storage vMotion.


vSphere High Availability (HA)

With vSphere High Availability (HA) allows for the high availability of VMs. If a server was to fail, the affected virtual machines will be restarted on other servers that have spare capacity available.

vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler dynamically balances and distributes computing capacity across bands of hardware resources for virtual machines. Included with this feature is distributed power management (DPM) capabilities that allow for data centre to substantially lessen its power consumption.

vSphere Storage DRS

vSphere Storage DRS distributes and balances storage capacity and I/O dynamically across groups of data centres. Management capabilities minimise the risk of running of out of space and the risk of I/O bottlenecks negatively affecting the performance of VMs.

vSphere Fault Tolerance

vSphere Fault Tolerance provides continuous availability through protecting a VM with a copy. Whenever this feature is enabled for a VM, a secondary copy of the original VM is created. Every action completed on the primary VM is also applied to the secondary VM. If the original, primary VM becomes unavailable, a secondary machine immediately becomes active.


vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)

vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) can span multiple ESXi hosts, allowing for a substantial reduction of on-going network maintenance and heightening network capacity. This improved efficiency allows VMs to keep up consistent network configuration as they migrate across many hosts.

Host Profiles

Host Profiles is a feature that simplifies host configuration management via user-defined configuration policies. The host profile policies capture the blueprint of a known and validated host configuration and use it to configure storage, security, networking and other settings across multiple hosts. The host profile policies generally monitor compliance to standard host configuration settings throughout the data centre. The manual steps involved in configuring a host are reduced by Host Profiles. It can also aid in maintaining the consistency across the data centre.

Host Profiles is additionally a component of vSphere Auto Deploy. The concept of an auto deployed host signifies vCenter Server owns the entire host configuration and its captured in a host profile. Some policies need input from the user to provide host-specific values. An answer file, containing policy definitions, is created to support Auto Deploy for host profiles.



With Broadberry CyberStore Storage Appliances, you will never have to suffer vendor lock-in. A regular fixture in the strategy employed by most storage sever vendors, vendor lock-in benefits the vendor but restricts the customer as you will only be able to utilise additional hardware with your storage server if it comes from the storage vendor or their associates. This makes it very difficult for you to find the ideal hardware that fits your business requirements.

Broadberry storage solutions feature full range compatibility to all major storage server software. Things are forever evolving in business and this compatibility will greatly aid your business if at some point down the line you wish to use different storage operating systems which may better fit your post-growth needs.

With over three decades of experience in the storage server industry, Broadberry has served enterprise-grade storage servers to some of the largest organisations in the world. The list includes Sky, Disney, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Sony, CERN, Toyota, Toshiba, the BBC, ITV and a lot more. Find out how Broadberry’s enterprise-grade server and storage solutions can benefit your business today.


With Broadberry CyberServe storage appliance, you will never have to suffer vendor lock-in. A regular fixture in the strategy employed by most server vendors, vendor lock-in benefits the vendor but restricts the customer as you will only be able to utilise additional hardware with your server if it comes from the vendor or their associates. This makes it very difficult for you to find the ideal hardware that fits your business requirements.

Broadberry server solutions feature full range compatibility to all major storage server software. Things are forever evolving in business and this compatibility will greatly aid your business if at some point down the line you wish to use different server operating systems which may better fit your post-growth needs.

With over three decades of experience in the industry, Broadberry has served enterprise-grade servers to some of the largest organisations in the world. The list includes Sky, Disney, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Sony, CERN, Toyota, Toshiba, the BBC, ITV and a lot more. Find out how Broadberry’s enterprise-grade server and server solutions can benefit your business today.

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The Broadberry CyberStore range of enterprise-grade storage servers are designed and built for a wide-range of storage applications.

Completely customisable from processing to storage type and capacity, to operating system - the CyberStore range is your go-to storage platform.

Used by the World's Largest Organisations

The CyberStore range of storage servers are used by the world's largest organisations from the BBC, to the CERN project, governement institutions, universities and much more.

Multi
Award-Winning

Year-after-year, the Broadberry CyberStore range of unified storage appliances has beaten the likes of Dell and HPE to be crowned "Best Storage Appliance" by PC Pro magazine.

Outstanding
Value

When compared to the likes of DELL, HPE, EMC etc, the Broadberry CyberStore range of enterprise-grade unified storage appliances is up to 60% cheaper, although using the same quality components such as Seagate drives and Kingston RAM.

Compatible with your
Favourite Software

The Bradberry CyberStore range has been built from industry-leading commodity hardware, and carefully designed to ensuure full compatibility with leading storage operating systems and database engines.


Lower Cost, Same Components

Broadberry enterprise storage appliances are on average 86% lower cost than EMC and 55% lower cost than DELL although built using the same leading-brand server components such as Intel processors and Samsung memory. HPE hard drives are rebadged Toshiba enterprise-class drives, the exact same models as found in Broadberry storage appliances.

Hard Drive Caddies Included

When you buy a Broadberry storage appliance all drive bays are supplied with caddies - so if in 6 months time you decide to expand the storage you can source it freely from the marketplace or ourselves if you wish. The only way to add hard drives to HPE servers is to buy the drives along with caddies from HPE for 200% the price of Broadberry's price.

No Ongoing Licence Costs

Broadberry storage appliances come with enterprise-grade features like IPMI included, whereas HPE charge large fees for perpetual licences for the same features.

Instant, Accurate Quotations

Our website allows you to configure your server online with accurate prices, as opposed to NetApp who require several face-to-face meetings with them before they'll give you a price.

Market Moving Away from Tier 1 Vendors

Over recent years there's been a massive move from the world's largest organisations such as Google to purchase their servers from the likes of Broadberry rather than DELL and HPE. This move is fuelled by the rise in commodity hardware.



Extensive Testing

Before leaving our build and configuration facility, all of our server and storage solutions undergo an extensive 48 hour testing procedure. This, along with the high quality industry leading components ensures all of our systems meet the strictest quality guidelines.


Customization Service

Our main objective is to offer great value, high quality server and storage solutions, we understand that every company has different requirements and as such are able to offer a complete customization service to provide server and storage solutions that meet your individual needs.

Trusted by the World's Biggest Brands

We have established ourselves as one of the biggest storage providers in the US, and since 1989 been trusted as the preferred supplier of server and storage solutions to some of the world's biggest brands, including: