Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform
WesternDigital'sOpenFlexData24NVMe-oFstorageplatformoffershighperformanceforshared storage, allowing low latency sharing of NVMe SSDs over a high-performance Ethernet fabric. ItusesWesternDigital'sRapidFlex™NVMe-oFcontrollers,allowinguptosixhoststobeattached withoutaswitch.Theplatformcanbeusedasadisaggregatedstorageresourceinanopen composable infrastructure environment or as a direct replacement for SAS external storage. TheplatformcanbespecifiedwithjusttwoRapidFlexadaptersforsimplerenvironmentsorasa direct replacement for SAS external storage. TheplatformusestheUltrastarDCSN840NVMeSSDs,aperformanceNVMeSSDforcloudcompute andenterpriseworkloads,andcanachieveupto71.4GB/sof128Kbandwidthandover16.7MIOPS at 4K block size.
The Solution/ Connectivity Details:SixBeeGFSclientservers,eachconfiguredwithasingleNVIDIA®Mellanox®CX-5100GbEEthernet adapter. ThreeBeeGFShostservers,eachconfiguredwithtwoNVIDIAMellanoxCX-6100GbEEthernet adapters with multipath connectivity to the OpenFlex Data24 One single 64-port 200GbE NVIDIA Spectrum SN4000 series switch. One single OpenFlex Data 24 with 24 x SN840 7.68TB dual ported SSD. Two IOM modules with 3 x 100GbE AIC per IOM.