IT Industry Leaders Demo NVMe over Fabrics Performance at Gartner Data Center Conference 2016
Optimizing Low Latency I/O for Enterprise with NVMe-oF: Liqid, Inspur, Mellanox and Kingston
December 06, 2016 10:06 AM Eastern Standard Time
LAS VEGAS--( BUSINESS WIRE)-- Liqid Inc., in partnership with Inspur, one of the top five largest server manufacturers in the world, announces validation of the Liqid Powered Kingston® DCP1000 and 100GbE networking from Mellanox. Validation was performed using two Inspur 1U servers each populated with one of Kingston’s Liqid Powered DCP1000 NVMe solid-state drives (SSD) and connected together through Mellanox’s ConnectX-4 NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking adapter.
Liqid, Inspur, Mellanox and Kingston demo industry-leading NVMe over Fabrics performance at #GartnerDC #LiqidPowered
Tweet thisThe results from testing demonstrate industry-leading average write latencies of less than 50 microseconds and high transactional read performance exceeding 1M IOPS per server. The key benefits of these benchmarking metrics enable users to deploy next-generation mission critical scale-out storage applications that require non-blocking architectures for performance-sensitive applications. Customers can now work directly with Inspur on solutions leveraging the latest NVMe-oF technology to accelerate data delivery to applications from the node-, rack- or data center-level using open systems and the latest storage and networking technologies.
“Enterprise customers demand cost-optimized solutions that can accelerate data to any location in their infrastructure while maintaining extreme performance, and they are looking to NVMe to handle the increased storage workloads of cloud, media, IoT and big data analytics,” said Dolly Wu, GM of Data Center and Cloud USA at Inspur Systems. “Sharing data, whether across a data center or campus, while maintaining predictable low latencies is a core requirement for business critical applications. Inspur is looking forward to meeting these challenges with leading suppliers like Kingston and Mellanox.”
Combining Kingston’s Liqid Powered DCP1000 NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) with the Mellanox ConnectX® family of network adapters, Inspur’s platforms are able to deliver high performance I/O between servers for distributed, scale-out applications while maintaining extremely low latencies and minimally impacting power requirements. Inspur’s non-blocking NVMe-oF architecture enables nearly 100 percent performance aggregation across NVMe SSDs and allows scaling of network interconnects from 10-100Gbits to meet throughput and IOPS at node- and rack-level deployments.
Using a single DCP1000 SSD and Mellanox NVMe-oF adapter, the Inspur 1U servers (Model: NF5180M4) sustained the following workloads independently:
Single-ended NVMe-oF from Sever-1 to Server-2 (used in initiator-target environments)Max Random Read: 1.05 Million IOPS (4k Block, QD = 48)Average Write Latency: 47 microseconds (4k Block, QD=1)Bi-directional NVMe-oF (used in clustered scale-out multi-initiator, multi-target environments)Max Random Read: 1.85 Million IOPS (4k Block, QD = 48)Max Sequential Transfers: 10.2 GBytes per second42,000 IOPS per watt @ 25 watts of power draw from the DCP1000 SSDInspur makes scalable performance and capacity easy by offering customers the choice of Kingston DCP1000 SSDs and Mellanox ConnectX cards on the appropriate Inspur server platform.
“The emerging NVMe over Fabric solution allows mission critical data center applications to access the storage without sacrificing the performance,” said Motti Beck, Sr. Director Enterprise Market Development, Mellanox Technologies. “Mellanox continues to enhance its data center Ethernet solutions that include NVMe over Fabric offload engines while pushing the boundaries of throughout and I/O over 25, 40, 50 and 100GbE. We are excited to collaborate with Liqid on Kingston’s Liqid Powered DCP1000 SSD that maximizes I/O requests over RDMA with our ConnectX products.”
“Inspur has won a loyal following across hyperscale and enterprise customers,” said SSD Business Manager Ariel Perez at Kingston. “The DCP1000 was designed from the ground up to meet the performance demands of today’s modern data center, and Kingston looks forward to continuously delivering innovations that allow rapid access to data for our end-users.”
Kingston and Liqid jointly developed the DCP1000 to meet the extreme demands of critical data center and enterprise applications for performance, cost, endurance and power.
“Latency, density and economics are top of mind for CIOs driving toward an agile data center. With the explosion of data volumes feeding real-time analytics, performance leadership at node and rack level is paramount for customers and solution providers alike,” said Marius Tudor, VP Sales and Business Development at Liqid. “NVMe flash and NVMe-oF are becoming increasingly relevant for powering the next wave of data centers to deliver unrivaled performance, efficiencies and economics.”
Industry-leading node- and rack-level NVMe solutions are generally available from Inspur at www.inspursystems.com. Visit Inspur Booth #136 at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference in Las Vegas, NV, from Dec. 5-8, 2016, for live performance demonstrations of NVMe-oF with Liqid, Inspur, Mellanox and Kingston technologies. |
