BlueField SmartNIC Virtualizes Storage for any
Application or Operating System to Accelerate Cloud
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data
center servers and storage systems, today announced NVMe SNAP
(Software-defined, Network Accelerated Processing), a storage
virtualization solution for public cloud, private cloud and
enterprise computing. This new SNAP technology allows customers to
compose remote server-attached NVMe Flash storage and access it as
if it were local, to achieve all the efficiency and management
benefits of remote storage, with the simplicity of local
storage.
The Mellanox NVMe SNAP solution eliminates the inefficiency of
local storage while addressing a growing need for compute and
storage disaggregation and composability at cloud scale. NVMe SNAP
enables faster adoption of NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) in different
data center environments by enabling seamless integration into
almost any server with any operating system or hypervisor,
effectively enabling immediate deployment of NVMe-oF technology for
any application.
The NVMe SNAP solution, delivered as part of the BlueField™
family of PCIe SmartNIC adapters, makes networked flash storage
appear as local NVMe storage, effectively virtualizing the physical
storage. Local NVMe SSDs are already supported by all major
operating systems and hypervisors. NVMe SNAP makes use of these
existing NVMe interfaces, to give customers the composability and
flexibility of networked flash storage, combined with the
advantages of local SSD performance, management, and software
transparency. This NVMe SNAP technology is combined with
BlueField’s powerful multicore Arm processors and virtual switch
and RDMA offload engines, to enable a broad range of accelerated
storage, software defined networking, and application solutions.
The Arm processors in combination with SNAP can be used to
accelerate distributed file systems, compression, de-duplication,
big data, artificial intelligence, load balancing, security and
many other applications.
“We have a long history of delivering not just high-speed
networking, but greater efficiency to servers, storage, and
applications,” said Dror Goldenberg, Vice President of Software
Architecture, Mellanox Technologies. “Customers have relied on us
to deliver higher bandwidth, efficient transport, software-defined
networking, and packet processing acceleration. Now we can help
them virtualize and accelerate storage as well, making cloud and
enterprise computing faster, composable, more secure, and more
efficient.”
“As the largest online retailer and biggest Internet company by
revenue in China, JD.com is a leader in building and operating
cutting-edge data centers,” said Gang He, corporate vice president
of JD Group and head of JD Cloud product development. “The ability
to provision remote networked storage as local storage using the
Mellanox NVMe SNAP framework helps us design a composable
infrastructure that is flexible and agile to meet our evolving
storage needs.”
“Customers rely on the revolutionary E8 Storage architecture for
the most demanding workload, such as genomics, real-time analytics,
and accelerating scale-out file systems like IBM Spectrum Scale,”
said Ziv Serlin, VP architecture and co-founder at E8 Storage.
“They want the ability to access our high-performance and
highly-available NVMe-oF arrays from many different types of
servers and to keep as much of the servers’ CPU power as possible
available for those workloads. For those reasons, we look forward
to leveraging Mellanox’s NVMe SNAP to virtualize E8 all-flash
arrays as local NVMe storage on many types of servers.”
“NVMe SNAP lets more customers take advantage of Excelero’s
high-performance NVMesh storage solution and Remote Direct Drive
Access (RDDA) functionality,” said Yaniv Romem, CTO and co-founder
of Excelero. “NVMesh is the ideal storage for 4K and 8K video
production, databases, containers, and high-performance computing
use cases, and NVMe SNAP allows a broader range of operating
systems and hypervisors access NVMesh as if it were local storage.
We are excited to work with Mellanox on integrating NVMesh with
NVMe SNAP on BlueField SmartNICs to both simplify composable NVMe
storage and make more client CPU cores available to run critical
applications.”
As more workloads move to public and private cloud
infrastructure and servers increasingly use faster 25, 50 and 100
Gb/s network speeds, customers face increasing challenges to meet
storage capacity, management, and performance requirements. While
providing fast performance, it is hard to fully utilize, protect,
and share local storage. Networked storage, based on NVMe over
Fabrics, improves resource utilization, flexibility, and capacity
planning, but requires specific support from operating systems,
hypervisors, and applications. NVMe SNAP allows remote storage to
appear as if it were direct-attached NVMe flash, in a way that is
completely transparent to the OS and hypervisor. This allows all
applications running on virtualized, containerized, or bare metal
servers to enjoy the performance benefits of local storage with the
manageability, data protection, and efficiency of networked
storage.
“Customers want to achieve Total Infrastructure Efficiency
across servers, storage, and networking, and the Mellanox NVMe SNAP
solution offers them a way to achieve exactly that,” said R. Scott
Raynovich, chief analyst at market research firm Futuriom. “Our
recent survey of over 200 cloud and enterprise professionals
revealed that their biggest concern around virtualization and
containers is overcoming the performance penalties of
virtualization. As they deploy SmartNICs as a way to make their
data centers more efficient, the second-most popular use case for
SmartNICs is to virtualize and share flash storage more
efficiently. A SmartNIC like BlueField that can both virtualize
flash storage and accelerate SDN has tremendous potential with
cloud and large enterprise customers.”
Mellanox is showcasing NVMe SNAP technology at the 2019 OCP
Global Summit in San Jose, CA March 14-15. Visit Mellanox at booth
A16 to learn about the benefits of Mellanox high throughput
networking solutions and BlueField SmartNICs with NVMe SNAP to
accelerate and virtualize storage.
Additional Resources:
- Learn More About SNAP on Simplifying
Composable Infrastructure with NVMe Hardware Virtualization
- Read the Futuriom Secrets of the
Datacenter Survey Report
- Learn more about Mellanox
SmartNICs
- Follow Mellanox on Twitter, Facebook,
LinkedIn, and YouTube
- Join the Mellanox Community
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of
end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart interconnect solutions and
services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions
increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput
and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications,
unlocking system performance and improving data security. Mellanox
offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches,
software and silicon that accelerate application performance and
maximize business results for a wide range of markets including
cloud and hyperscale, high performance computing, artificial
intelligence, enterprise data centers, cyber security, storage,
financial services and more. More information is available at:
www.mellanox.com.
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