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Microsemi: Products SmartROC 3100 and 2100 Storage I/O Flash Controller

Powered by Unified Smart Storage Stack

Microsemi Corporation announced the production release of a generation of storage I/O controller products, the SmartROC 3100 and SmartIOC 2100, powered by the company’s Unified Smart Storage Stack.


With the release of this Smart Storage Platform, the company enhances its server storage solution offerings for data center applications.

With over 30 million unit shipments worldwide to date, Smart Storage Stack offers reliable and performing storage controller software platforms. The Smart Storage Platform available in production release delivers security features, such as maxCrypto controller-based encryption and enterprise data protection support, while providing performance and an advantage in operating costs due to power savings compared to previous generations and competing product offerings. The solution achieves up to 1.6 million random read IO/s and delivers greater than 35% power savings compared to competing solutions.


Our next generation server storage solutions offer a common firmware and software stack across HBAs, RAID and other applications, enabling our OEMs, original design manufacturers and hyperscale customers to deliver a variety of custom boards with rapid time to market,” said Pete Hazen, VP and business unit manager, scalable storage, Microsemi. “Feedback from our lead customers has been extremely positive as they finalize qualification of designs anticipated for production launch with the release of next generation server platforms later this year.

These smart storage solutions can be used in any server storage application with 12Gb SAS or 6Gb SATA HDDs or SSDs. SAS/SATA HDDs and SSDs are forecasted by market research firm IDC to represent 80% of all enterprise drives shipped on an annual basis through the end of the decade.

Smart storage solutions are performance-optimized around SSD performance and power-optimized for HDD-based cold storage. Features are available for both deployment extremes in addition to many hybrid SSD/HDD applications. They also support data protection schemes including RAID, erasure coding and data replication.

IDC also expects server shipments to grow to nearly twelve million units per year by 2020. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) is the recognized server market leader with revenue market share of more than 18%, according to market research firm Gartner, Inc.

“With today’s data-intensive applications, HPE is committed to providing the performance, reliability, security and efficiency needed to address the evolving storage needs of our customers,” said Scott Farrand, VP, DCIG firmware, software and options, HPE. “Through collaboration with technology providers such as Microsemi and their advanced storage controller architecture, HPE is able to create innovative server-based storage capabilities that deliver the scale, speed and resiliency that enable our customers to more rapidly gain new insights from their data, helping them to exceed their business goals.


SmartIOC 2100 and SmartRoC 3100, combined with the Unified Smart Storage Stack,
boast the following enhancements over its prior generation of storage controllers
:

  • Common firmware and software stack across all product variants, increasing reliability, improving end customer use experience and reducing qualification efforts

  • Density optimized, with variants available in 8, 16 and 24-port configurations for 12Gb SAS and 6Gb SATA

  • Two additional dedicated boot drive ports available with the 16- and 24-port variants

  • Support for the latest storage media, including both the latest generation of 6Gb SATA and 12 Gb SAS SSDs for performance applications and SAS or SATA SMR drives for cold storage applications

  • PCIe Gen 3 x8 host interface compliant to base specification 3.1

  • Enhanced hardware acceleration for RAID-0/1/10/5/6/50/60

  • maxCrypto, third generation data-at-rest controller based encryption engines

  • Integration of green backup components for footprint and bill of materials cost reduction for RAID applications with a protected write cache.

The combination of Unified Smart Storage Stack, SmartRoC and SmartIOC product families and firm’s SXP family of SAS expanders provide a complete server solution for storage management and connectivity.

Unified Smart Storage Stack, as well as the fourth generation SmartRoC 3100 and SmartIOC 2100 controller product families, are available in volume production quantities.

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