All-Flash SF-Series 19210 Node From NetApp/SolidFire Up to 80TB

NetApp SolidFire introduced the latest addition to its SF-Series product line and announced version 9 of its Element OS – Fluorine.

The SF-Series 19210 decreases the cost of all-flash arrays by offering the highest density — twice the performance and capacity in the SF-Series — and lowest cost per GB/IO/s. With 40-80TB effective capacity, 100,000 predictable IO/s and sub-millisecond latency, the SF-Series 19210 is for heavily virtualized environments, databases, and public and private cloud infrastructures where guaranteed performance, scale-out capacity, and higher infrastructure density are required. It delivers the full SolidFire feature set, including guaranteed QoS, a true scale-out architecture, in-line data reduction, complete system automation and integration with VMware and OpenStack.

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Company’s platform compatibility guarantee ensures hardware compatibility so customers can add SF-Series nodes to expand their system with the latest flash technology, rather than being locked into a single generation of flash. This eliminates the hardware replacement, storage migration and forklift upgrades that are common with many traditional enterprise storage systems, ultimately protecting customers’ investment in their infrastructure.

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“Element OS 9 (Fluorine) is a demonstration of our commitment to continuously improving and building an innovative, solid and flexible all-flash array for a broad range of use cases. By simply upgrading to Fluorine, customers gain access to a new set of features that help them transition to a service delivery infrastructure,” said Val Bercovici, field CTO, SolidFire. “Our unique software-based approach to storage allows customers to enable the next-generation data center in every data center and achieve what’s never been possible before.“

Building upon eight previous versions, Element OS – named Fluorine – continues to deliver the enterprise feature set for consolidating multiple, mixed workloads onto an agile, secure and automated infrastructure. By integrating with VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols), increasing FC scalability and enhancing multi-tenant network capabilities, Element OS 9 improves flexibility and expands the range of use cases for SolidFire’s all-flash scale-out system.

Key functionality within Fluorine includes:

• Integration with Vvols – By integrating SolidFire’s QoS with VMware VVols, customers can achieve the most granular control over storage performance on a per-VM basis. This functionality allows them to set min, max and burst IO/s levels, ensuring exact amounts of capacity and guaranteed performance for even the most performance-sensitive VMs. Both capacity and performance can be changed on-the-fly without migrating data or impacting performance.

• Increased FC scalability – Element OS 9 doubles the number of FC node connectivity in a company’s cluster to four, allowing users to scale out to 40 storage nodes. Fluorine also increases the limit of IO/s per FC node from 300,000 to 500,000 IO/s, resulting in 2,000,000 IO/s per a four-FC node cluster – over three times better aggregate performance.

• Expanded VLAN features – New features within Fluorine allow for tagging default networks and supporting more flexibility in multi-tenant networks by enabling customers to use overlapping IP addresses on VLANs via separate routing tables, preserving limited IP address resources.

• User interface (UI)– Re-built from the ground up, the new UI consolidates the storage system data into a single dashboard, saving customers time and resources.

The company offers a shared nothing architecture, which enables customers to upgrade to Element OS 9 non-disruptively. The firm has proven the advantages of a shared nothing architecture by offering 100% non-disruptive software and hardware upgrades since firm’s all-flash scale-out storage platform was released for availability in November 2012.

The SF-Series 19210 is available for order through the company and its global partner network.

Fluorine will begin shipping in the third quarter of 2016.