Simplifying Virtualization with a Flexible Infrastructure and High-Performance KIOXIA SSDs
Today’s organizations need their IT infrastructures to adapt as quickly as business requirements change. Whether deploying new applications, scaling existing services or modernizing legacy environments, virtualization remains one of the most effective technologies for maximizing resource utilization, accelerating deployments and reducing operational complexities. What becomes challenging is that software licensing models change, application requirements shift, and costs increase. As organizations evaluate their infrastructure strategies, flexibility becomes critical, not only in selecting the right virtualization platform but also ensuring that workloads can be migrated easily without disrupting operations. The ability to evolve the IT infrastructure is an organizational requirement.
A new generation of high-capacity KIOXIA SSDs that fit business infrastructure and virtualization needs when paired with HPE® ProLiant® servers and HPE storage systems, like the HPE Alletra® MP, are currently in qualification and expected soon. These models include KIOXIA CM Series enterprise SSDs and KIOXIA CD Series data center SSDs which offer excellent performance and provide scalability to your storage requirements, whether directly attached to servers or provided by external storage systems. If you add HPE Morpheus™ VM Essentials on top of HPE ProLiant servers running KIOXIA CM/CD Series SSDs, the result is an easy to use and manage virtualization environment.
HPE Morpheus VM Essentials is a modern virtualization and hybrid cloud management platform designed for traditional virtualization infrastructures as well as the HPE Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It enables organizations to manage various environments through a single interface.
The KIOXIA Innovation Lab demonstrated HPE Morpheus VM Essentials at HPE Discover 2026 and found it easy to set up and manage. It offers easy VM migration from older virtualization platforms that helps organizations protect their previous investments while transitioning to a more flexible infrastructure strategy. Equally important is that HPE Morpheus VM Essentials integrates seamlessly with a broad range of SSD solutions offered by KIOXIA, enabling customers to select the storage infrastructure that best aligns with their performance, capacity and availability requirements.
HPE Morpheus VM Essentials supports a variety of storage connectivity options: Local direct-attached storage
- External block storage
- Fibre Channel SAN environments
- iSCSI-based storage networks
- Network file systems (NFS)
- Enterprise storage arrays
This flexibility allows organizations to design infrastructure solutions that meet their workload requirements without being constrained by a single storage architecture. When paired with new KIOXIA enterprise and data center SSDs, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials environments can deliver the performance, reliability and scalability required for modern virtualized workloads.
For virtualization hosts and compute infrastructures, KIOXIA CD9P Series Data Center SSDs offer an excellent balance of performance, efficiency and value. Whether deployed in HPE ProLiant servers serving as ‘Morpheus’ management nodes, virtualization hosts or NFS storage platforms, KIOXIA CD9P Series data center SSDs provide high-performance PCIe® storage for virtualized workloads and are ideal for scalable storage solutions. These SSDs are particularly well suited for environments that do not require dual-port connectivity but still demand exceptional performance and operational reliability.
For organizations deploying external block storage or enterprise-class storage arrays (HPE Alletra MP for example), KIOXIA CM9 Series enterprise SSDs provide a great solution. Built on next-generation PCIe technology and designed specifically for enterprise environments, these SSDs provide a dual-port architecture for high availability, enterprise-grade reliability and endurance, and high throughput for demanding virtualization workloads. These capabilities are positioned for storage arrays supporting virtual machine clusters where performance consistency and redundancy are essential for maintaining business continuity.
Together, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and KIOXIA CM9/CD9P Series SSDs provide organizations with flexible, scalable and future-ready infrastructure platforms. HPE Morpheus VM Essentials simplifies virtualization management and workload migration, while KIOXIA CM9/CD9P Series SSDs deliver the storage performance and reliability necessary to support demanding virtualization environments.
For organizations who are evaluating modern virtualization alternatives or building next-generation private cloud infrastructures, the combination of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and new KIOXIA storage technologies offer powerful foundations for innovation.
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