back to article Huawei's storage hardware future: Fancy some cosy NVMe over Fabrics this winter?

Will NVMe over Fabrics nuke the storage array into a JBOF winter or will array technology extend itself into new combinations of compute controllers, media and network links? Huawei has both technology strands in development with a high density 1U JBOF and a 4U x 16-blade Barreleye system. The hardware demonstration systems …

  1. HPCJohn

    That form facotr looks a lot like Panasas, with their storage blades.

    However Panasas strength is a marvellous installation, monitoring and management framework.

    I wonder what Huawei are offering here, or are they jus providing the hardware?

    And as an aside Huawie - please provide Infiniband as an option. HPC types rather like it.

    Again Panasa provided IB to Ethernet gateway servers. But please - native IB would be preferable.

  2. Ian Michael Gumby
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    Wow

    This is the future ...

    You can build some crazy fast clusters using 2 of these and fill the rest of the rack with a ToR and 1U servers w lots of cores and Ram w minimal local drives for OS.

    How much?

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Gotta wonder how much of the tech Huawei has stolen.

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