NVME FLASH ARRAY
TURNKEY SOLUTION FOR ADVANCED STORAGE SYSTEMS
Unleash the Full Potential of Your SSDs with a Unique All-Flash Array DPU-based design, the Flashbox™!
DPU (Data Processing Unit) at the Heart of a New Generation of NVMe All-Flash Array
The Flashbox™ is a great example of how Kalray’s DPU smart storage cards can be leveraged to build unique storage solutions.
Kalray Flashbox™ is the first disaggregated NVMe storage array that has been designed from the ground up to leverage the full potential of NVMe flash devices at massive scale, while ensuring the lowest storage Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Featuring the Kalray K200-LP™ Smart Target Controller card with Kalray MPPA® DPU, Flashbox™ enables customers to unlock the performance of NVMe SSDs at scale, while meeting reliability and efficiency requirements for their businesses. Built on an off-the-shelf appliance, the solution addresses the key challenges of scale-out NVMe storage: scalability, performance, cost-efficiency, high availability and ease of use.
The Flashbox™ is available with our design partners or as a reference platform to design your own solutions.
Kalray’s Flashbox™ Wins Coveted
Flash Memory Summit 2022 Best of Show Award!
An award which recognizes solutions that demonstrate compelling customer value with market-differentiating benefits.
Two Options: Turnkey or Build-Your-Own
Turnkey NVMe All-Flash-Array Appliance
Kalray’s Flashbox™ is a ready-to-use storage appliance that can be plug & play in your existing infrastructure, the same as any other non-NVMe standard appliance.
It is developed in cooperation with Viking Enterprise Solutions, a division of Sanmina Corporation.
Or Build your own NVMe All-Flash-Array Appliance
K200-LP™ best-in-class smart storage acceleration card.”
Kalray Flashbox™ Overview
Kalray’s Flashbox™ is a break-through solution for high-performance, scale-out NVMe storage.
The disaggregated architecture of Flashbox™ unleashes the full capabilities of NVMe SSDs: physical devices are abstracted into one scalable pool of high-performance storage and logical volumes can be allocated to applications across the network as if they were locally attached.
Kalray’s Flashbox™ differentiates from other scale-out NVMe solutions in that all critical storage services run on one single chip in the disaggregated storage appliance: the Kalray MPPA® DPU (Data Processing Unit), a new generation of data-centric processors delivering an unprecedented level of performance and programmability.
This is significantly more cost-efficient, and gives much higher performance, than traditional x86 based architectures, which see reduced performance efficiency due to data the processing bottleneck when adding storage services.
Flashbox™ enables efficient NVMe disaggregation, resulting in the most optimal utilization of NVMe resources. Because all storage services run locally on the Kalray DPU, the performance overhead is reduced to an absolute minimum.
As the DPU was designed to minimize power consumption, power savings compared to alternative processors can be as high as 15x.
Kalray’s Flashbox™ revolutionizes how customers use and store high-performance data without compromising on high-availability and scalability. FlashBox™ runs on standard hardware and leverages industry standard protocols (NVMe-oF, NVMe-oF over Ethernet), making it very easy for customers to deploy in existing environments.
Kalray’s Flashbox™ comes with Kalray Storage AccessCore® SDK, an open software environment based on the industry standard SPDK. With Kalray’s Flashbox™, customers get both performance and software openness.
Use Cases
FLASHBOX™ USE CASE
Feeding Data-hungry GPUs for AI and Machine Learning
Kalray’s Flashbox™ is the first disaggregated NVMe storage array for AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning workloads that has been designed from the ground up to leverage the full potential of NVMe flash devices at massive scale. It enables data scientists to unlock the performance of NVMe SSDs at scale and feed their data-hungry GPU’s.
FLASHBOX™ USE CASE
Boosting Parallel File System Performance for High Performance Computing
Flashbox™ integrates with all popular parallel file systems and guarantees the highest performance per $ and Watt.
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Technical Corner / Kalray Flashbox™ Specifications
| HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS |
|---|
| 2RU, 19” rack support with rails |
| Two I/O modules – six fans |
| Up to 6 adapters |
| Up to 12 100GbE ports |
| 24x U2 dual-ported NVMe SSDs |
| Up to 364 TB in 2U with 1.9, 3.8, 7.6 and 15.2 TB SSDs |
| 3-year built-in support |
| SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS |
|---|
| SPDK-based storage suite |
| RAID 0, 1, 10 and 6 (based on EC algorithms) |
| Logical Volumes |
| Thin provisioning |
| Snapshots |
| Clones |
| NVMe-oF (RoCEv1/v2) |
| NVMe/TCP |
| Active/active or active-standby, highly available configuration |
| Configurable In-band or out-of-band system management |
| POWER AND COOLING SPECIFICATIONS |
|---|
| Power: 2 AC & DC 1600W power modules with 2 independent AC power input |
| Operating temperature: 0°C to 45°C |
| RoHS compliant |
| Dimensions: 87mm H x 438mm W x 697mm D 3.43 in H x 17.2in. W x 27.44 in. D |
| Weight: 25.5 Kg |
Our MPPA® DPU Processor Makes it Possible
Kalray’s Data Processing Unit is a new class of processing accelerator for predominantly data-centric processing task.
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