#Pure Storage and #Cisco Systems this week demonstrated an all-flash #NVMe over fabrics ( #NVMeoF ) device the vendors are building together.
The two vendors showed off the system at the Pure Accelerate user conference, although it will not be available until at least 2018. Pure and Cisco are in the midst of interoperability testing. The demonstration integrated Pure Storage FlashArray block storage and Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers. Cisco virtual interface cards (VICs) integrated directly on FlashBlade provides a nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) storage fabric. "We believe this is the first broad demonstration of an end-to-end NVME storage array [that extends] all the way from the host down the flash chips. This is how storage will be built in another year or two," said Matt Kixmoeller, the vice president of marketing and products for Mountain View, Calif.-based Pure Storage. The next-generation Cisco VIC supports remote direct access memory for converged Ethernet running a standard Linux distribution and integrated NVMe flash system drivers to support FlashArray data reduction, snapshots and replication.
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