Flash Memory Summit: NDS22482F NVMe Over Fabric Flash Storage Platform by Newisys

Newisys, a Sanmina Corporation‘s product division, announced its NDS22482F (Soquel) NVMe Fabric storage system.

This platform delivers an combination of performance, dynamic scalability, low-latency and multi-vendor interoperability.

This NVMe over Fabric solution was demonstrated live at the Flash Memory Summit showing what is possible in achieving performance for a production ready SAN. This demonstration represents a software-defined Storage (SDS) solution with interoperability among vendors including Intel Corp.‘ NVMe flash drives, Kazan Networks Corporation NVMeoF fabric cards, IBM Corp.‘ Spectrum Scale (clustered file system), and Mellanox Technologies Ltd.‘ 100GbE switches and HBAs.

“Since the initial interoperability testing last year, Newisys has achieved a level of integration with our NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) bridges that puts them on top of the performance leader board,” said Joe Steinmetz, CEO, Kazan. “This new platform and combined solution delivers a whole new level of performance, scalability and interoperability — which is exciting to our customers and across the market, in general.“

Key solution advantages:

Record-setting performance: The firm’s NVMe Fabric storage system model NDS22482F architecture is non-blocking and delivers 15 million IO/s and 7 GB/s while adding less than seven microseconds to native SSD latency. The solution scales both horizontally to increase performance and vertically to increase overall capacity.
New level of optimization: The NDS22482F is optimized to eliminate the latency added by traditional approaches-this is important when using SSDs with Intel’ Optane (3D XPoint) technology.
Next-generation storage networking: The performance potential of storage based on non-volatile memory (NVM) is unlocked by connecting the NDS22482F to switched fabrics using six 100Gb PCIe over Ethernet links, unlike traditional all-flash arrays.
Linear scale-out of performance and capacity: Unlimited scale-out is possible with the NDS22482F, because while every unit connects directly to the storage fabric, all remain centrally managed.
Flexible management: The system ships with a single or multi-node management interface that enables easy deployment and management at scale in large data center environments.

“Our new NDS22482F platform has the ability to deliver its full performance over Ethernet with full bandwidth and minimal added latency,” said Eugene McCabe, EVP, Newisys. “This addresses customer use cases ranging from HPC and Enterprise Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), to big data Analytics and big data Warehousing applications with extreme performance.“

This product is currently in release and production ramp-up, with early orders for test and production systems being accepted now.