OpenFlex Data24
24-bay NVMe-oF Storage Platform
- Up to 368TB of low latency Dual Port SSDs in 2U 24-bay platform
- Bandwidth match between SSDs (Storage) and I/O (Network) – No oversubscription
- RESTful API support for simplified management
- Vertically integrated Western Digital design: NVMe SSDs, fabric adapters and platform
- Optional dual adapter configuration for direct SAS replacement
- Industry-leading 5-year limited warranty
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Overview
The Performance of NVMe™ Flash in Shared Storage
Western Digital’s OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF storage platform extends the high performance of NVMe flash to shared storage. It provides low-latency sharing of NVMe SSDs over a high-performance Ethernet fabric to deliver similar performance to locally attached NVMe SSDs. Unsurpassed connectivity in its class using Western Digital RapidFlex NVMe-oF controllers, allows up to six hosts to be attached without a switch, like a traditional JBOF.
NVMe-over-Fabrics, or NVMe-oF, is a networked storage protocol that allows storage to be disaggregated from compute to make that storage widely available to multiple applications and servers. By enabling applications to share a common pool of storage capacity, data can be easily shared between applications or needed capacity can be allocated to an application to respond to application needs.
OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF storage platform can also be used as a disaggregated storage resource in an open composable infrastructure environment using the Open Composable API. The platform can also be specified with just two RapidFlex adapters for simpler environments and as a direct replacement for SAS external storage. OpenFlex Data24 is built to deliver high availability and enterprise-class reliability. The entire platform, including SSDs, is backed with a 5-year limited warranty.
Applications and Workloads
- Real-time Analytics
- Database
- SDS Environments
- High-Performance Computing
- Public or Private Cloud
- Virtualization
- Scale-Out/Up Configurations
- AI and Machine Learning
Benefits
- Enables multiple servers to share NVMe flash storage as if it were local
- Leverages low latency fabric to fully utilize IOPS and capacity
- Provides more efficient use of large capacity SSDs at low latency
- Balances access to eliminate over-subscription and maintain NVMe performance
- Provides open composability thru mature NVMe-oF standard
- Ideal SAS replacement option (dual adapter configuration)
Pricing Notes:
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.