QLogic and Brocade First to Demonstrate Non-Volatile Memory Express Over Fabrics with Fibre Channel
December 07 2015 - 9:00AM
(Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations
Management Conference) – Today, QLogic® and Brocade®
demonstrated the industry’s first Non-Volatile Memory Express
(NVMe) over Fabrics solution using Fibre Channel as the fabric. The
demonstration is based on the draft specification of NVMe over
Fabrics under definition by the NVM Express, Inc. organization and
the draft Fibre Channel over NVMe (FC-NVMe) standards under
definition by T11. The solution is being demonstrated in the
Brocade booth #546 at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure &
Operations Management Conference in Las Vegas.
NVMe provides a standards-based approach for PCI
Express (PCIe) solid state drive (SSD) access that significantly
improves performance by reducing latency and streamlining the
command set while providing support for security and end-to-end
data protection. NVMe over Fabrics defines an efficient mechanism
to utilize these devices in large scale storage deployments and
provides investment protection by allowing the latest in
innovations and advances in low latency SSD flash to be used over
proven Fibre Channel fabrics. This enables the NVMe storage devices
to be shared, pooled and managed more effectively. The QLogic and
Brocade FC-NVMe proof of concept (POC) is aimed at providing a
foundation for lower latency and increased performance, while
providing improved fabric integration for flash-based storage.
“Next-generation data intensive workloads are
utilizing low latency NVMe flash-based storage to meet ever
increasing user demand,” said Vikram Karvat, vice president of
products, marketing and planning, QLogic. “By combining the
lossless, highly deterministic nature of Fibre Channel with NVMe,
FC-NVMe targets the performance, application response time, and
scalability needed for next generation data centers, while
leveraging existing Fibre Channel infrastructures. QLogic is
pioneering this effort with industry leaders, which in time, will
yield significant operational benefits to data center operators and
IT managers.”
“The advent of FC-NVMe is critical to the
evolution of the data center and Brocade has been at the forefront,
being both a key contributor and editor for the T11 FC-NVMe
architecture,” said Jack Rondoni, vice president of storage
networking, Brocade. “As the data center continues to evolve, so
does Fibre Channel-based technology. Fibre Channel plays a vital
role in connecting flash-based devices and FC-NVMe will further
strengthen this correlation.”
“The NVM Express organization is pleased to see
the first demonstration of NVMe over Fabrics using Fibre Channel,”
said Amber Huffman, president, NVM Express, Inc. “We are excited to
collaborate with the T11 standards organization to develop a robust
standard that works well for Fibre Channel-based storage
environments.”
“FC-NVMe extends the reach of existing Fibre
Channel investments, enabling data centers to continue to leverage
the tens of billions of dollars of installed Fibre Channel
equipment,” said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research. “The
popularity of Fibre Channel connected flash-based storage continues
to grow strongly, ensuring the longevity and persistence of Fibre
Channel connectivity in the data center of the future.”
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