OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform

Features

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. Industry-leading connectivity, using Western Digital RapidFlex™ network adapters, allows up to six hosts to be attached without a switch.
The OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform can also be used as a disaggregated storage resource in an open composable infrastructure environment. OpenFlex Data24 is built to deliver high availability and enterprise-class reliability. The entire enclosure, including SSDs, is backed with a 5-year limited warranty..

• Up to 368TB¹ in 2U
• 24 Dual port high-performance SSDs
• Wide range of NVMe SSD capacity and endurance options
  - Ultrastar® DC SN840: 1DWPD: Up to 15360 GB
  - Ultrastar® DC SN840: 3DWPD: Up to 6400 GB
• High availability with dual IOM
• 3 PCIe x 16 slots/IOM
• Up to six 100GbE ports with dual IOM at full performance
• Western Digital RapidFlex NVMe-oF fabric adapters
• OpenFlex inspired composability in a mainstream 2U24
• 28" (711mm) chassis depth - fits most commonly used short depth racks (800 - 1000 mm)
• Bandwidth match between SSDs (Storage) and I/O (Network) – No oversubscription
• RESTful API support for simplified management
• Superior serviceability and high quality global support services
• Industry leading limited warranty – 5 years

Benefits

• Enables servers to share NVMe flash storage as if it were local
• Uses low latency fabric to fully utilize IOPS and capacity
• Provides more efficient use of large capacity SSDs
• High performance RapidFlex NVMe-oF controllers
• Fan out to six connections without a switch
• Balanced design to eliminate over-subscription and maintain NVMe performance
• Disaggregates NVMe shared storage for open composability
• Allows multiple hosts concurrent access at low latency
• Leverages mature standard NVM Express over Fabrics 1.0a
• Provides open composability in a 2U 24-bay platform

¹ One terabyte (TB) is equal to one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less due to operating environment