DDN Storage 신제품 출시 소식

요약:

DDN은 PCIe Gen4 기반의 SFA400NVX 어레이를 발표했습니다. 이 제품은 DDN의 스케일아웃 병렬파일시스템인 EXAScaler 어플라이언스 ES400NVX2/AI400X2로 제공됩니다.

SFA400 제품은 이전 세대 대비 Write 대역폭이 25GB/s에서 64GB/s로 크게 증가했습니다.

새로운 시스템은 자연어처리/재무분석/제조 자동화/생산 시스템과 같은 AI 요구사항을 처리하도록 설계되었습니다.

원문: https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/11/17/ddn-turbo-charges-sfa-array-bandwidth/

DDN has accelerated its SFA200 and SFA400 NVX arrays by up to 156 per cent by adding more and faster PCIe lanes and upgrading the controllers to Gen-3 Xeon Scalable Processors.

These two block-access arrays share a common chassis (two rack units x 24 slots) which accepts 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs. Client access links have been upgraded as well, with faster base bandwidth. These systems are the foundation of DDN’s storage portfolio and are available as EXAScaler ES400NVX2 and ES200NVX2 scale-out, parallel file storage systems, as well as the recently announced AI400X2 appliances.

SFA400NVX2 Front Panel.

DDN says the new systems are designed to handle the modern data needs of AI applications, like natural language processing, financial analytics, and manufacturing automation, and production systems. In its view the new systems are needed to handle the ever-expanding amount of data these applications require, and to deliver the data fast enough for real-time processing and insight.

We have tabulated the old NVX2E and new VX2 systems using DDN datasheets to bring out the main improvements:

 

The sheer IOPS performance has not improved at all but the bandwidth has risen significantly, particularly with the old SFA400 putting out 25GB/sec when sequentially writing and its replacement rocketing along at 64GB/sec. There is vastly more internal PCIe bandwidth and speed with the new systems — up to 288 lanes of PCIe 4, versus 192 lanes of half-as-fast PCIe 3 in the replaced systems.

The new SFA400VX2 can be deployed in a hybrid (flash+disk) configuration and have 6.4PB of capacity in half a rack using DDN’s 90-bay drive enclosures. This uses 16 lanes x 4 ports (64 lanes) of SAS connectivity. The new systems can also have up to 64 PCIe lanes providing client connectivity.

The EXAScaler systems have so-called Hot Pools technology which optimises for both performance and low cost by transparently migrating data between flash and disk tiers. 

Get a datasheet for the new systems from this DDN webpage.