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RapidFlex Family of Fabric Bridge Devices
Western Digital RapidFlex A2000 is a low-power, high-performance NVMe-oF fabric bridge device that enables more efficient use of NVMe-based storage. NVMe over Fabrics, or NVMe-oF allows external NVMe SSDs to be shared at comparable latency as if they were inside the server. In addition to better efficiency, this disaggregation separates storage from the server refresh cycle. This new version adds initiator capability that allows datacenters to deploy much lower power initiator cards in their servers. This new version also doubles performance with an additional 100 GbE port matched to 16 lanes of Gen 4 PCIe.
Highlights
● Initiator or target fabric bridge device
● PCIe Gen4x16
● TCP and RoCE connection support
● Scale-out Performance
● Low Latency
● Dual 100 Gb Converged Ethernet connectivity
● Low power for ecofriendly footprint
● Compact size for high density configurations
● Extensive hardware IO acceleration
Applications and Workloads
● Scale-out performance applications
● High Performance Computing
● Transactions
● Databases
● Real-time analytics
● Virtualized environments
● Large image processing
Specifications
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2x 100 Gb Ethernet Interface
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Single x16 PCIe Gen4
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RoCE and NVMe/TCP connections