Broadcom Showcases NVMe Technology Firsts with Industry’s Most Comprehensive NVMe over Fabrics Adapter Portfolio
August 08 2017 - 09:00AM
FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT
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Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ:AVGO) is
featuring the industry’s first complete portfolio of NVMe over
Fabrics adapter solutions at Flash Memory Summit. The new NVMe over
Fibre Channel and NVMe over RDMA solutions make Broadcom a one-stop
shop for NVMe over Fabrics. The new technology comes at an ideal
time with the release of powerful new server and storage platforms
that combine Intel® Xeon® scalable processors and NVMe drives that
have been optimized for hybrid cloud infrastructures and
mission-critical applications that require low-latency, scalable
fabrics. NVMe over Fabrics enables customers to scale the number of
NVMe SSDs an application can access from tens of NVMe drives to
1000’s of NVMe drives across the data center and between multiple
data centers.
NVMe over Fibre Channel:
With the imminent FC-NVMe T11 standard ratification and FCIA
plug-fests, Emulex-branded HBAs by Broadcom have demonstrated
multi-vendor interoperability. Emulex® Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs by
Broadcom have been qualified for NVMe over FC support on Fibre
Channel Switches including Brocade’s X6 Director and G620 switch as
well as Cisco’s MDS 9000 family of products.
Broadcom, NetApp and Brocade are demonstrating the first-ever
NVMe over Fibre Channel end-to-end solution comprised of Emulex Gen
6 Fibre Channel HBAs by Broadcom and a Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel
switch connected to a NetApp all-flash array. The technical
preview highlights:
- NVMe over Fibre Channel on Linux and Windows
- Concurrent NVMe over Fibre Channel and SCSI over NVMe
- NVMe over Fibre Channel support by enterprise-class storage
arrays
- NVMe over Fibre Channel integration into SPDK (Storage
Performance Developer’s Kit)
"We are excited to be demonstrating the world’s first end-to-end
NVMe over Fibre Channel solution with a NetApp all-flash array and
a Gen 6 Fibre Channel network," said Jeff Hoogenboom, general
manager, Emulex Connectivity Division at Broadcom. "NVMe over Fibre
Channel is purpose-built for tomorrow’s mission-critical workloads
leveraging today's infrastructure."
This technology preview validates the investment protection that
NVMe over Fibre Channel brings to enterprise customers that have
built their networks on the proven Fibre Channel fabric, and
extends that fabric to service increasingly important and new
mission-critical workloads such as business analytics and NoSQL
databases. NVMe over Fibre Channel works with current
Gen 6 Fibre Channel networks with no changes required. Storage
arrays that leverage Broadcom Gen 6 Fibre Channel can add NVMe over
Fibre Channel through a simple software upgrade.
NVMe over RDMA: Broadcom is also featuring NVMe
over RDMA based on Broadcom’s market-leading NetXtreme® networking
solutions:
- Scalable Ethernet NIC solutions to 100Gb built on
industry-proven Broadcom NetXtreme Ethernet controller technology
that incorporate Smart Congestion Control for RoCEv2 providing
deterministic NVMe-oF performance
- Optimized 100G NVMe-oF SoC integrating our industry-leading
3GHz Octal-core ARMv8 Cortex-A72 CPU architecture, HW-based
RAID/Erasure and Dedup offload engines targeting highly-scalable
disaggregated NVMe-oF solutions with minimum latency
Supporting Quotes:
Brocade
“NVMe is the next wave of storage innovation and Brocade is
modernizing Fibre Channel to help enterprises derive more value and
performance from their applications and infrastructure," said Jack
Rondoni, senior vice president of storage networking at Brocade.
"The solution that we’re demonstrating at Flash Memory Summit
highlights the rapid evolution of NVMe with the industry’s first
server, SAN, and storage array solution for NVMe over Fibre
Channel. It’s an important industry milestone that
demonstrates the business value of providing a seamless transition
to NVMe and unprecedented investment protection for existing Fibre
Channel SANs.”
Cisco
“Cisco recently announced production support for NVMe over Fibre
Channel for Cisco’s MDS 9000 16G and 32G product line,” said Becky
Marques, director, Product Management DC Switching, Cisco Systems,
Inc. “We are pleased to see more industry adoption and a growing
ecosystem of vendors delivering NVMe to the market.”
Demartek
“Broadcom is demonstrating two solutions for NVMe over Fabrics
(NVMe-oF) at the Flash Memory Summit 2017,” said Dennis Martin,
president of Demartek, an industry analyst firm with its own test
lab. “The Fibre Channel implementation can run NVMe and SCSI
traffic over the same port at the same time with simply an adapter
software upgrade that works with existing Fibre Channel equipment.
The RDMA implementation runs on its Ethernet adapters and includes
offload technologies to help improve performance. Both solutions
showcase the importance of NVMe-oF and its expected impact on
storage fabrics in modern data centers.”
SANBlaze
"FC-NVMe provides an ideal opportunity to combine the low
latency and high performance of the emerging NVMe storage
technology with the reliable and secure Fibre Channel storage
infrastructure, addressing both the I/O and bandwidth-intensive
workloads that are becoming the mainstay of the modern data
center,” said Vince Asbridge, president of SANBlaze Technology,
Inc. “SANBlaze is pleased to work with the leading NVMe, Fibre
Channel and network vendors to provide cross vendor emulation and
validation tools as the industry evaluates this game changing
storage technology."
Visit NetApp booth number 632 to see the end-to-end NVMe over
Fibre Channel demo. For information on Broadcom’s NVMe over RDMA
solutions, please visit Broadcom booth number 729.
Press Contact:
David Szabados
Corporate Communications
david.szabados@broadcom.com
Telephone: 1-408-433-7848
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