Elevate Your Storage Solutions with GRAID and NVMe/TCP

Embrace the future of storage technology and enhance your business operations with GRAID and NVMe/TCP

Integrating GRAID’s SupremeRAID? with NVMe/TCP transforms your storage infrastructure into a high-performance, scalable, and reliable solution. Whether deployed as a target or an initiator, SupremeRAID? ensures your storage operations are optimized for maximum efficiency and data protection.

What is NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP)?

NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) is a protocol designed to facilitate communication between NVMe storage devices and hosts over TCP/IP networks. By integrating the high-performance features of NVMe storage with the widespread availability of Ethernet-based networks, NVMe/TCP offers a streamlined solution for fast, low-latency storage access in data center environments. Organizations can achieve the performance of local NVMe storage while benefiting from the flexibility and scalability of networked solutions.

Key Benefits of NVMe/TCP

• Low Latency: NVMe/TCP offers low-latency storage access, ensuring rapid data retrieval and processing, crucial for high-performance computing and real-time applications.

• High Throughput: The protocol maintains high throughput, enabling fast data transfer rates between hosts and NVMe storage devices, optimizing system performance.

• Efficiency: NVMe/TCP enables efficient transmission of NVMe commands and data over TCP/IP networks, allowing for streamlined communication between hosts and NVMe storage devices.

• Scalability: NVMe/TCP allows for scalable storage solutions, making it suitable for both small-scale and large-scale deployments in data center environments.

• Cost-effectiveness: By leveraging existing Ethernet infrastructure, NVMe/TCP offers a cost-effective solution for implementing high-speed storage access without the need for additional specialized networking hardware.

• Flexibility: It provides flexibility in storage deployments, supporting various network topologies and configurations to meet the specific requirements of different applications and environment.

GRAID SupremeRAID? Controllers:

GRAID SupremeRAID? is a storage solution developed by GRAID. It encompasses RAID controllers and related technologies designed to enhance data protection, performance, and reliability in storage systems. SupremeRAID? integrates advanced RAID functionalities, ensuring data integrity and protection against drive failures. It is used with high-performance NVMe SSDs to optimize storage performance and reliability in enterprise and data center environments.

Key Benefits of GRAID SupremeRAID?

• Advanced Data Protection: GRAID SupremeRAID??offers a powerful high-speed data protection solution tailored for NVMe SSDs, providing comprehensive RAID levels (0,1,5,6,10) and ensuring data integrity. It also supports a dual-controller setup for Auto-Failover and High-Availability to guard against a single card failure.

• Efficiency: These controllers optimize data flow, reducing latency and increasing throughput, which is essential for real-time AI and HPC data processing. Unlike conventional software RAID that burdens the CPU, the GRAID SupremeRAID? controller uses a Nvidia GPU to offload RAID commands and parity calculations. RAID protection is thus performed out-of-path delivering 100% of the NVMe SSDs throughput.

• Flexibility: The controllers allow the creation of multiple virtual volumes of varying sizes and RAID levels as needed.

• Strong Scalability:?The SupremeRAID? GPU card supports up to 32 physical drives, including NVMe SSDs, NVMe-oF connected drives, and SAS/SATA disks, surpassing current market solutions that are limited to 4 NVMe SSDs.

GRAID and NVMe/TCP: Stronger Together

GRAID seamlessly enhances data integrity in the NVMe/TCP environments. While NVMe/TCP lacks built-in data protection, GRAID SupremeRAID? controllers step in, offering robust RAID protection for NVMe storage over TCP/IP networks. These controllers can act as either NVMe/TCP Targets or Initiators, offering versatile functionality in your storage needs.

SupremeRAID? as a NVMe/TCP Target:?

The SupremeRAID? allows you to easily compose local NVMe devices into a RAID array and share that array as a NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) target server. By using a SmartNIC to accelerate data transfer, you can achieve low latencies and high performance for your remote NVMe/TCP clients.

Advantages:?

• On the NVMe/TCP Target side, in this case the NVMe Storage Server, the SupremeRAID? card can compose the local NVMe SSDs into a RAID volume, and share the RAID volume via the SmartNIC’s target offload function.
• Multiple virtual volumes of various size and various RAID protection can be created and individually exported.
• On the NVMe/TCP Initiator side, in this case the Compute Server, the SmartNIC can directly attach the composed RAID volume and provide it to the Compute Server, to be used just like a direct-attached NVMe device.
• No CPU is involved in the data path.
• Storage is disaggregated from Compute. Enables large-scale pooled NVMe storage with independent scaling of storage and compute.
• Software Composable Infrastructure -compatible. Virtual volumes can be dynamically created and allocated, via NVMe/TCP, to Compute based on the specific requirements of application and workloads.

SupremeRAID? as a NVMe/TCP Initiator:

The SupremeRAID? allows you to easily manage a remote target server or storage pool that uses NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) technology. With the SupremeRAID?, you can create a virtual volume with RAID capabilities without the need for reconfiguration or re-cabling on the host server. This allows you to take advantage of the benefits of NVMe/TCP, including increased capacity and improved data protection.

Advantages:?

• On the NVMe/TCP Target side (‘NVMe JBOF’), the SmartNIC directly attach the raw NVMe drives, over the Network fabric, to the Compute Server.
• On the NVMe/TCP Initiator side (‘Compute Server’), the “localised” NVMe drives are utilised by the SupremeRAID? to create virtual RAID protected volumes and presented to the host Operating System, to be used just like a local RAID volume.
• No CPU is involved in the data path.
• Storage is disaggregated from Compute. Enables large-scale pooled NVMe storage with independent scaling of storage and compute.
• Software Composable Infrastructure -compatible. NVMe disks can be allocated to multiple Compute Servers, via NVMe/TCP, based on the specific work-loads requirements.

Graid SupremeRAID?

?The Graid SupremeRAID? controller is a next-generation, GPU-accelerated RAID solution designed to eliminate traditional RAID bottlenecks. SupremeRAID? leverages its powerful computing and software capabilities to achieve up to 40x performance gain compared with a traditional RAID card without memory caching, and eliminating the need for backup battery modules.

Conclusion?

GRAID’s SupremeRAID? solution significantly enhances NVMe/TCP environments by offering superior data protection and RAID performance. By integrating SupremeRAID? with NVMe/TCP, businesses can achieve unparalleled storage efficiency, reliability, and scalability. This robust combination ensures optimal performance for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI applications in modern data centers.

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Contact Starview

Starview Technologies, appointed by GRAID Technology Inc. as a distributor, offers the world’s fastest enterprise NVMe SSD storage solutions. This partnership underscores Starview’s commitment to pushing technological boundaries and delivering cutting-edge solutions. Specializing in high-speed communications infrastructure and private clouds for demanding workloads, Starview combines its patents and intellectual properties with third-party solutions to provide unmatched value.