SC19: Quantumen QMFabricflash NVMe-oF 1U LightHeart Storage System

Quantumen Technologies, Inc. achieves NVMe-oF storage performance.

It will be revealing their latest NVMe-oF product, powered by the firm’s QMFabricflash technology, at the upcoming Super Computing 2019 (SC19) in Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO.

First released LightHeart at FMS 2019 in Santa Clara, CA, is an ASIC-based NVMe-oF Ethernet JBOF (Just A Bunch of flash) for Enterprise Datacenter SSD Form Factor (EDSFF) storage platforms. With a design for next gen datacenters, this performing storage, combined with EDSFF E1.L SSDs, achieves high densities at the same time.

Accommodating up to 32 hot-swappable EDSFF NVMe SSDs, LightHeart JBOF provides a storage capacity of up to 1PB in 1U rack space. In addition, the integration of ASIC bridges enables LightHeart to support direct connectivity with up to six 100GbE ports, meeting to the needs of data centers. The internal design provides PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSDs for non-blocking access.

The QMFabricflash technology provides end-to-end solution for NVMe-oF applications. It will accelerate workloads and lower latencies to boost application performance and business productivity. This technology provides an high bandwidth, low-latency fabric for NVMe communication, and it has demonstrated   NVMe-oF peak performance of 16.2 million IO/s, and 72GB/s throughput in 1U rack space. This solution, supporting both x86 and ARM-based compute and storage nodes, is to replace legacy FC SANs with standard Ethernet and NVMe-oF.

LightHeart appliance rear

With the advent of cloud storage, AI, ML, HPC, video data streams and edge devices, data centers have to optimize applications and infrastructure for new types of workloads. They must meet big numbers of parallel user (IO/s), high network traffic (GB/s throughput), quickly response (microsecond low latency) applications, meet data center and rack level power constraints with efficient power design (IO/s/watt) and reduce the number of racks needed for storing more data than ever. Today’s general-purpose data center architectures are inefficient and can carry resource and cost overhead. QMFabricflash technology provides end-to-end purpose-built solution. The innovation is enabler to storage cluster, scale out /up capacity, performance to multiple petabytes and millions of IO/s in small rack space.

The company is defining the future of disaggregated NVMe-oF. The team is focusing in simplifying and optimizing NVMe to make the impossible, possible, to take infrastructure to the next level.

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August 13, 2019 | Press Release