Vortex Express is built from the ground up with RDMA and NVMeoF technologies providing you an end to end NVMe all flash solution. Give yourself a head start with the speed and performance that was previously only available for the fortune 500 companies, for a much lower cost.
The system delivers flexibility, elasticity, simplicity and resiliency at scale with high-end performance storage fabric. In addition to delivering high-performance block storage with rich data services, Vortex Express offers a comprehensive and easy to manage toolset for IT operations and lifecycle management. It is ready for automating all your infrastructure workflows.
Vortex Express is highly adaptable to your storage needs, going from unleashing the power of up to 320 NVMe-disks, or expand your capacity with up to 1024 SAS-disks and still have 160 NVMe-disks available, on one controller! This makes it ideal for Ultra-Large databases, intensive big data workloads, AI and deep learning systems, agile private cloud deployments, and datacenter consolidation.
Vortex Express Base and Advanced Edition
Vortex Express Base Edition
Start to leverage the power of NVMe without breaking the bank. The Vortex Express BE supports up to a maximum of 32 U.2 NVMe disks in a compact 1U format.
Vortex Express Advanced Edition
The Advanced Edition is a 2U modular NVMe storage system that offers 24 internal SATA/SAS 2.5 inch bays. It is designed with large research institutes in mind, whether it’s governmental or commercial. This system supports up to 64 U.2 2.5 Inch NVMe disks natively.
Vortex Express advanced Expansion options
NVMe expansion
Vortex Express is expandable with one UR32 NVMe expansion kit which allows the addition of 32 NVMe disks to the controller
Vortex Express Advanced Expansion
The Advanced expansion provides you with the ultimate in current storage-technologies. It comes with our unique PCIE Fabric Composer to allow the connection of 10 UR32 NVMe expansion kits for a total of 320 NVMe disks to the storage controller through the PCIE Fabric composer that offers 512GB/s of transfer speeds with nanosecond latency
SAS expansion
Vortex Express is expandable with any 2U SAS cabinet, supporting the SAS protocol. This can go up to a maximum of 1024 disks through cabinet cascading.
Using SAS expansion, you can still expand your NVMe Standard or Advanced Edition with the NVMe Advanced expansion, with up to 5 UR32 NVMe expansion kits for a total of 160 NVMe disks.
Benefits of adopting Vortex Express
- Impressive performance in throughput up to 200Gbit/s per port and up to 6 Million IOPS with sub-millisecond latency.
- Intelligent hardware-assisted data reduction and encryption up to 100Gbit/s.
- Software defined storage with virtually unlimited configurations.
- Plug and play VMware support.
- Easy online Upgrades in cluster environments.
- Protection against silent corruption.
- Integrates seamlessly in existing infrastructures
- No disk or shelf ordering needed.
- Disks and Shelves are transferable between systems as volumes
System Specifications
Dual Intel scalable processors: a variety of processors picked based on requirements
up to 1.5TB of memory: Memory capacity is defined depending on customer wishes for a variety of operations including Deduplication and compression in relation to storage target sizes
- 16Gb Fibre Channel
- 10/25/50/100/200Gb iSCSI
- 25/50/100/200Gb RDMA
- 12Gb SAS (optional)
- Native NVMe
- PCI-E Fabric support
- infiniband Support
- Multiprotocol: 16Gb Fibre Channel SFP+ / 10Gb iSCSI SFP+ RDMA 25GB SFP28 100GB QSFP28
– Thin Provisioning: Allocate and consume physical storage capacity as needed in disk pools. Thin is virtual mode only.
– IP & FC Remote Replication: Safely replicate data to any global location that includes mirroring thin provisioned pools
– Snapshots: Easily recover files after accidental deletion or alteration with Redirect on Write snaps
– Volume Copy/Clones: Enable seamless volume relocation and disk-based backup and recovery with a full, replicated copy of source data
– Encryption (SEDs): Render data useless to unauthorized users with drive-level encryption, even if the drive has been removed from the enclosure (internal key management included)
– Encryption (Quick Assist): Native support for Intel quick assist for inline hardware assisted data encryption
– Virtualization Integrations: VMware vSphere, vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V
– SupportAssist: Provides enhancements enabling automated maintenance capabilities