Netapp Selects Chelsio T6 Unified Wire Adapters

Chelsio Communications, Inc., a provider of 1Gb/10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100GbE Unified Wire adapters and ASICs for storage networking, virtualized enterprise datacenters, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments announced that NetApp, Inc. has selected T6 Unified Wire adapters for its AFF A700 all-flash and FAS9000 hybrid storage systems.

The AFF A700 delivers performance in a compact form factor to modernize IT for demanding enterprise applications, analytic workloads, and cloud integration, while the FAS9000 delivers an approach to storage with an integrated combination of scalable hardware and adaptive storage software to support existing workloads as well as new applications.

The AFF A700, designed for configuration flexibility, is optimized for mid-range all-flash configurations. The system is easy to set-up in under 10 minutes, has serviceability, and has a modular design that enhances reliability, availability, and serviceability, and simplifies future upgrades. The AFF A700 system delivers the support for 12Gb SAS-3 storage connection, optimizing the infrastructure for flash, in addition to 40GbE with iWARP RDMA support. Use of iWARP RDMA enables ease of deployment and interoperability with 100% of the switch infrastructure in the industry.

The FAS9000 is a powerful fabric-attached storage (FAS) system, and its modular design enhances reliability, availability, and serviceability. With agility and data management capabilities, it has the flexibility to keep up with changing business needs while delivering on core IT requirements. The intelligent, modular design of the FAS9000 offers upgradability and flexibility. Each HA pair includes dual controllers and four independent slots for NVMe flash, while also enabling Ethernet ports with iWARP RDMA capability.

Chelsio T6 Unified Wire adapters are high performance Ethernet interfaces, scaling to deliver up to 100Gb/s wire speed bandwidth, low latency, and high message processing capacity. With a suite of offloaded storage, compute and networking protocols – including iWARP (RDMA/TCP), TCP/IP, UDP/IP, NVMe over Fabrics, iSCSI, FCoE, T10-DIX, IPSec, TLS/SSL, DTLS, Traffic Management, and Classification – T6 enables network convergence and provides performance in hybrid flash storage environments, while increasing host system efficiency and lowering communication overhead.

“NetApp has delivered historic leadership with regard to storage performance, connectivity, and efficiency,” said Octavian Tanase, SVP, ONTAP software and solutions group, NetApp. “We are pleased to work with Chelsio to deliver high-performance network connections and innovative new protocols to our customers in AFF A700 / A700s all-flash and FAS9000 hybrid storage systems.“

“Chelsio T6 Unified Wire delivers the highest?performance and most efficient options for the industry?leading storage protocol offload technologies,” said Kianoosh Naghshineh, CEO, Chelsio. “T6 in combination with NetApp’s leading AFF A700 all?flash and FAS 9000 hybrid storage arrays, has enabled highly differentiated solutions for the industry.“