Marvell Introduces Industry's First NVMe-oF SSD Converter Controller

Marvell announces the industry's first NVMe over Fabric® (NVMe-oF??) Solid State Drive (SSD) converter controller for the cloud and enterprise data center market, the 88SN2400. This controller has been carefully designed and optimized to deliver NVMe Converting SSDs to NVMe-oF SSDs provides a revolutionary architecture to increase SSD utilization and scalability in the data center, ultimately reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). By enabling low-latency access on the network architecture, By providing the entire SSD bandwidth to the network, the Marvell controller can support true scalable and high-performance computing classified storage. The 88SN2400 uses a simple, low-power and no-computing Ethernet network architecture, rather than being integrated with a 100GE controller. Traditional PCIe® network for enterprise server SoC control and management.

As data volumes continue to soar, data centers are struggling to cope with increasing power consumption, complexity, and increased cost of storage bandwidth and capacity requirements. Computing and storage are still underutilized, while storage servers are still Often overloaded, resulting in rising capital and operating expenses. Marvell's SSD converter controllers provide data center operators and designers with greater flexibility in developing their infrastructure and are optimized Expanded disaggregated flash storage and storage-level memory (SCM) to meet changing workload demands.

SSD converter controllers are helping a new class of low-power, low-latency and high-performance Ethernet-connected flash cluster (EBOF) drive storage devices. In a typical high-end 2U24 shelf with Gen3x4 SSD, the 88SN2400 can Supports up to 18M input/output operations per second (IOPS). By leveraging Marvell's ability to support 2Tb/s Ethernet switches and Marvell 88SN2400, data center operators will be able to benefit more from 150Gb/s pipeline pool storage (pooled) Storage), which consumes less power per input/output operation than the general purpose architecture. The new SSD converter controller is optimized for small form factor applications and can be connected to existing backplanes, very easy to use, and eliminates Single point of failure. This technology can also be used in Marvell's future SSD and emerging SCM controllers.