Pavilion Expansion Drive Pack, 18 Drives, 276 TB - DP-18-0276

Product Description

Pavilion delivers the true benefits of NVMe flash for today’s modern massively-parallel data applications

Pavilion Data is Industry’s only NVMe Over Fabrics Storage Platform. It is a true end-to-end NVMe solution, from the host all the way down to the media. The platform is 100% standards compliant with zero host-side presence or dependencies. It is built for the modern massively parallel and clustered web and analytics applications.

Pavilion delivers the true benefits of NVMe flash and storage class memory for today’s modern massively parallel data applications. By allowing NVMe SSDs to be shared over an Ethernet fabric, Pavilion unshackles it from the confines of a server to be shared across an entire application cluster.

The Power of Parallelism

NVMe is a new storage technology and it is inherently parallel. It is 250 times more parallel than SAS and 2000 times more parallel than SATA. Today, Modern web (transactional) and Machine Learning/AI (real-time analytics) applications are built on massively parallel clustered databases and filesystems because of their highperformance requirements. Examples include Cassandra, MongoDB, HDFS, GPFS, etc.

Pavilion’s Storage Platform delivers the next generation of composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) by separating storage from computing resources to allow them to scale and grow independently. In today’s large-scale environments it allows customers to become more agile by delivering the exact amount of composable resources at any given time.

The 2nd Wave of NVMe

To take advantage and deliver of this massive parallelism in modern storage media, and to deliver this raw, parallel performance to modern data applications, Pavilion had to challenge legacy scale-up or scale-out storage architectures. We had to rethink how storage platforms should be built with NVMe for the applications of tomorrow in mind. To that end, we designed a purpose-built NVMe platform from the ground up; a platform that can truly exploit this parallelism and deliver it natively to the modern data applications.

NVMe protocol vastly simplifies the host stack and it results in a massive reduction in host CPU utilization. To deliver on NVMe’s promise, we knew we needed to rely on standards-based NVMe-oF protocol that is native and inbox to most modern server OSes. Unlike other designs, we deliver the true performance of NVMe without encumbering the host with additional proprietary drivers or software.

The result? And ultra-modular 4RU Chassis platform that provides seamless, independent performance and capacity expansion and we realize that an Enterprise AFA is not a JBOF or an appliance. That’s why, when designing our platform, data availability and resiliency was of paramount importance. With no single point of failure, true N:1 redundant controllers, Dual-Parity RAID, Snapshots and clones, and thin provisioning our customers now reap the benefits of shared resources but with the performance of DAS at scale.

Enterprise Ready - All time is up time

All components are fully-redundant and hot-swappable, including active-active storage controllers, management controllers, PCIe Fabric, NVMe drives, fans, and power-supplies, offering unmatched availability and resiliency.

Enterprise Data Management

Dual Parity RAID Protection, Thin Provisioning, and Zero-space instant snapshots are just a handful of enterprise features built into the platform. A simple and intuitive web-based management GUI is complemented with standard storage management features such as REST API, SNMP, and Active Directory integration. Built in telemetry powers our cloud-based analytics engine for pro-active, predictive scenario modeling and support.

Commodity off the shelf components

Pavilion leverages standard x86 components throughout, including off the shelf processors and SSDs. No custom ASICs or FPGAs. This leads to rapid innovation and ability to leverage the latest technologies leading to unparalleled density and performance.

100% Standards Compliant NVMe-oFs

Standard Ethernet networking, Standard NVMe SSDs, Standard host software stacks… Pavilion does not require any custom software to be installed on application hosts by working with standard RoCE 40GbE or 100GbE adapters, and any v1.x compliant NVMe-oFs driver. Host resources are not required to scale performance, freeing up those resources for scaling applications, not storage.

Disruptive Economics

At 25X less expensive than All-Flash Arrays in terms of $/IOPS, the Pavilion NVMe-oF Storage Platform is designed not just for your exotic applications, but is the one platform for all your applications.

Highlights: