SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Aug. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced the industry's first
NVMe over Fabric™ (NVMe-oF™) SSD converter controller, the
88SN2400, for cloud and enterprise data centers. The 88SN2400
controller is designed and optimized to convert an NVMe™ solid
state drive (SSD) into an NVMe-oF SSD, providing a revolutionary
architecture that increases utilization and scalability of SSDs
within the data center to ultimately lower total cost of ownership
(TCO). By bringing low latency access over the fabric and exposing
the entire SSD bandwidth to the network, the Marvell® controller supports true scalable,
high-performance disaggregation of storage from compute. The
88SN2400 utilizes a simple, low-power and compute-less Ethernet
fabric instead of a traditional PCIe® fabric controlled
and managed by an enterprise-class server SoC with integrated 100GE
controllers.
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As data growth continues to soar, data centers are grappling
with the increasing power consumption, complexity, and costs
associated with the demand for greater storage bandwidth and
capacity. However, compute and storage continue to be
underutilized, with storage servers typically oversubscribed,
resulting in increased capital expenditure and operational
expenditure. The Marvell SSD converter controller allows greater
flexibility for data center operators and designers to develop
their infrastructure and enables them to meet evolving workload
demands with optimized scalable units of disaggregated flash
storage and storage class memory (SCM).
The SSD converter controller is powering an innovative class of
low-power, low-latency and high-performance Ethernet Bunch of
Flash (EBOF) storage appliances. In
a typical high-end 2U24 shelf with Gen3x4 SSDs, the 88SN2400 can
support up to 18M input/output
operations per second (IOPS). Utilizing a Marvell Ethernet switch
that supports 2Tb/s and the Marvell 88SN2400, data center operators
will be able to benefit from a 150GB/s pipe of pooled storage, and
better power consumption per IO compared to general purpose
architectures. The SSD converter controller is optimized for a
small footprint and can be attached to existing backplanes
providing ease of service and eliminating single point of failure.
The technology can also be designed into future Marvell SSD and
emerging SCM controllers.
"As cloud and enterprise data centers increase their deployments
of flash storage and emerging storage class memories to address
growing and diversifying workloads such as AI and analytics, it is
paramount they optimize the utilization, efficiency and scale of
these costly resources," said Nigel
Alvares, vice president of SSD and Data Center Storage
Solutions at Marvell. "Our converter controller enables disruptive
disaggregated NAND and SCM SSD architectures that can be composed,
provisioned and assigned real-time to lower cloud and enterprise
data centers total cost of ownership."
"Through our longstanding relationship with Marvell, we have
shared a strong commitment to storage technology innovation," said
Shigeo (Jeff) Ohshima, Technology
Executive, SSD Application Engineering at Toshiba Memory
Corporation. "The development of our Ethernet direct-attached
NVMe-oF SSD prototype with the new Marvell 88SN2400 is built on our
collaborative vision to help our data center customers achieve
higher performance, lower cost and lower power consumption."
"The Marvell 88SN2400 is the industry's first NVMe-oF SSD
converter controller technology providing an innovative solution to
enabling NVMe-oF architectures with existing NVMe SSDs," said
John Chen, vice president of
TRENDFOCUS. "The ability to expose the full SSD bandwidth to the
network will enhance operational efficiencies and reduce costs in
the data center. Leveraging the solution's Ethernet feature will
provide access to remote storage nodes with minimum added latency
as compared to direct attached storage, making this solution a very
interesting proposition for the industry."
Marvell is showcasing its new NVMe-oF SSD converter controller
at booth 511 at the Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara Convention Center, August 7-9. At the Summit, Nigel Alvares will present a keynote,
"Optimizing Storage Solutions for Data Center Applications" on
August 8 at 1:30 p.m. Shahar
Noy, senior director of product marketing at Marvell, will
present "Scale-Out Architecture Using SSD Attached NVMe-oF
Controllers," during the NVMe-oF track on August 9 at 8:30
a.m.
Samples of the Marvell 88SN2400 are available now. For more
information on the 88SN2400 and how it can help architect new
solutions for the data center, please visit:
https://www.marvell.com/storage/system-solutions/nvme-controllers/.
About Marvell
Marvell first revolutionized the digital storage industry by
moving information at speeds never thought possible. Today, that
same breakthrough innovation remains at the heart of the company's
storage, processing, networking, security, and connectivity
solutions. With leading intellectual property and deep system-level
knowledge, Marvell's semiconductor solutions continue to transform
the enterprise, cloud, automotive, industrial, and consumer
markets. To learn more,
visit: https://www.marvell.com
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Marvell Media Relations
Kristin Hehir
Senior Manager, Public Relations
408-222-8744
kristinh@marvell.com
Hanna Kang
Senior Manager, Public Relations
408-222-3780
hhkang@marvell.com
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