Mangstor Delivering NVMeoF-Compliant Storage Arrays

Mangstor Inc. announced that its family of NX-Series Storage Arrays are complying with the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) specification developed by the NVM Express, Inc. consortium.

Mangstor NX6320

The company is a founding member of the consortium’s NVMeoF committee and was a participant in the ratification of the new standard.

The  NVMeoF specification was created to enable flash-based SSDs to communicate over RDMA fabrics (i.e. IB or Converged Ethernet), delivering the same high performance, low latency benefits as local attached NVMe. The specification has broad reach and is expected to help drive All-Flash Array (AFA) revenue from $2.58 billion in 2015 to $5.65 billion in 2019 according to IDC, representing a 21.65% CAGR over this forecast period.

The firm, as a developer of next generation non-volatile memory storage products, leverages its expertise in storage and flash controller technologies, networking and storage interfaces, and high performance software to develop the first available storage arrays supporting NVMe over both Ethernet (RoCE) and IB fabrics. These NX-Series solutions are scalable shared storage arrays that enable IT managers to dynamically provision NAND flash memory locally or remotely, with centralized management. The performance-optimized NX-Series are based on company’s software-configurable MX6300 NVMe-based SSDs and TITAN software storage stack.

“The newly released standard is helping to lead an industry transition to NVMeoF technology as a superior alternative to FC or iSCSI SAN all-flash array solutions, which use interfaces that were created for HDD-based systems,” said Paul Prince, CTO, Mangstor.”Our NX6320 delivers read and write latencies of 110μs and 30μs , comparable to internal PCIe SSDs, and it delivers sustained performance of millions of IO/s with latencies under 200μs – an order of magnitude better than typical FC or iSCSI interfaces.”

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When fully configured, a single NX6320 storage array delivers over three million random 4KB read IO/s performance and over 2.25 million 4KB write IO/s, as well as bandwidth of 12GB/s for read operations and 9GB/s for write operations. Performance scales linearly to hundreds of GB/s as arrays are added with virtually no increase in latency, so if more capacity or performance is needed, arrays can simply be added as required. Latency is consistent, predictable and similar to local SSD access times, and in some cases, even better since there is no significant latency tax from the optimized RDMA network.

The NX6320, with up to 10x higher bandwidth and one-tenth the latency when compared to iSCSI and FC-based AFAs, is a solution for data-intensive storage, latency-sensitive applications and real-time analytics.

NX-Series Storage Arrays are available through company’s worldwide sales channel of distributors, resellers, system integrators and manufacturing representatives.