Today NetApp announced the launch of their all-flash array (AFA), FlashRay and its operating system Mars OS. We first previewed FlashRay last year. FlashRay is NetApp's third all-flash storage array offering, the others being EF-series and the FAS series.
Today NetApp announced the launch of their all-flash array, FlashRay and its operating system Mars OS. We first previewed FlashRay last year. FlashRay is NetApp's third all-flash storage array offering, the others being EF-series and the FAS series.
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FlashRay is built from the ground up for flash storage, its architecture is optimized for maximum flash life, and uses cluster architecture to natively support automatic balancing. FlashRay also leverages efficiency features such as always on, global inline, variable-length deduplication, always on thin provisioning, and compression with variable-length block input (allowing data to be manage in various block sizes), and scales out so customers can start with a small deployment and grow capacity and performance as needed. FlashRay features a latency of under 0.5 milliseconds. NetApp FlashRay is currently available as a single 11TB node with a single controller and 16Gb/s Fiber Channel connectivity.
Other features include:
- Snapshots
- Replication/backup to FlashRay and ONTAP
- Object granular data management
- Multi-protocol access
- Application Integration
Mars OS is aimed at improving the economics and performance of flash technology, while still delivering efficiency, protection, and data management. Features include: “always-on” inline efficiency features and variable-length block layout. Combined, these features minimize the I/O activity to flash, increasing the effective capacity, and deliver high performance at consistent submillisecond latencies.
Availability
FlashRay is available to select customers and partners.
