KIOXIA anuncia disponibilidad de producción de SSD nativos basados ​​en flash Ethernet

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KIOXIA América, Inc. today announced the production availability of its EM6 Series Enterprise NVMe-oF solid state drives (SSD) for Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) sistemas. Using the Marvell 88SN2400 NVMe-oF SSD converter controller that converts an NVMe SSD into a dual-ported 25Gb NVMe-oF SSD, KIOXIA EM6 Series drives expose the entire SSD bandwidth to the network.

Due to their ability to scale performance of NVMe SSDs, native NVMe-oF architectures are well-suited for applications such as artificial intelligence (AI)/aprendizaje automático (ML), high performance computing (HPC) and storage expansion. In the case of HPC, leveraging the Lustre file system, which is used to provide high bandwidth and parallel access to compute clusters, is beneficial to NVMe-oF based storage, such as EBOF systems with EM6 SSDs, that enable high availability (HA) configuraciones. An HPC HA configuration example consists of multiple and redundant network connections between a compute host and an EBOF with 88SN2400-connected NVMe SSDs, to deliver scalable throughput based on the number of SSDs.

In an HA disaggregated block storage expansion use case, the same configuration could accommodate multiple host systems, providing shared and scalable block storage with high bandwidth utilization of the NVMe SSDs.

KIOXIA EM6 Series drives have successfully undergone NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) certification testing. GDS connects to NVIDIA A100-based systems to accelerate AI/ML applications, and EBOF storage platforms enable scaling of NVMe flash storage for these storage-hungry workloads.

EM6 Series Key Features

  • Conectividad de red simple o doble Ethernet de 25 Gb y RoCEv2
  • NVMe-oF 1.1 y NVMe 1.4 Cumple con las especificaciones
  • 2.5-inch 15 factor de forma de altura Z en mm
  • 1 Resistencia DWPD con 3,840 GB, 7,680 Opciones de capacidad de GB
  • Las unidades de la serie KIOXIA EM6 ya están disponibles a través de Ingrasys – una subsidiaria de Foxconn, en su plataforma ES2000 EBOF. ES2000 es un sistema de almacenamiento de 2U que admite hasta 24 2.5-unidades de factor de forma en pulgadas y se pueden configurar con múltiples conexiones de red para aumentar el rendimiento y la redundancia.