SOLUTIONS PRODUCTS CLOUD CUSTOMERS SUPPORT PARTNERS COMPANY SFA14KX® FAMILY USE CASESCONFIG & SPECSHOW TO BUY To address the comprehensive needs of HPC environments, the revolutionary DDN SFA14KX Hybrid and Hyper-Converged Solution delivers 60GB/s, 3.5 Million IOPs and industry-leading density in a single 4U appliance. DATA GROWTH IS A CHALLENGE AND A STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY One of the biggest continuous challenges in HPC is the ability to manage and take advantage of huge data growth. Compute performance increases at a much faster rate than storage media performance while data is growing faster than compute, making storage the most strategic component of the high performance data center performance. Technologies have only provided help in at least one dimension: access, performance or growth. New flash products raise the performance of an individual drive. Higher performance networks will drive data into and out of compute faster. New technologies like burst buffers will speed applications. But each of these alleviates only one part of the problem. INTRODUCING THE MOST ADVANCED AND COMPLETE HPC STORAGE PLATFORM By integrating the latest high-performance technologies from silicon, to interconnect, memory and storage, the SFA14KX changes the future of HPC architecture design. The revolutionary DDN SFA14KX is a high-performance block storage and hyper-converged platform that accelerates them with DDN high-performance software features and balances them to deliver the fastest performance at the lowest latency. Intelligent caching and full bandwidth infrastructure delivers maximum advantage from SAS based SSDs, NVME* and HDDs. Non-blocking internal PCI-e and 12Gb SAS fabrics ensure fast, low latency data access while high performance networking connectivity options like InifiniBand™, Intel® Omni-Path, FC, Ethernet significantly reduce the number of ports, cables and network devices lowering acquisition and administrative costs. SFA14KX delivers an unmatched number of SSD and spinning drives in the least amount of space, making it one of the most dense storage solutions on the market. This extreme level of density makes the SFA14KX ideal for data centers with limited space, or any high-performance environment needing to expand capacity without adding the complexity of many appliances to manage and the cost of powering and cooling a large number of controllers. RESOURCES VIEW ALL RESOURCES WORLD'S FASTEST HYPER-CONVERGED ARCHITECTURE UNPRECEDENTED PER RACK PERFORMANCE HIGHEST EFFICIENCY FOR MIXED WORKLOADS EMBEDDED PCIE FABRIC INDUSTRY-LEADING PERFORMANCE FLEXIBLE, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FILE SYSTEM SCALING WIDEST BREADTH OF INTERCONNECT OPTIONS SIMPLICITY AT SCALE FASTER REBUILDS *Future Release USE CASES Back to Top SFA14K CONFIGURATIONS & SPECIFICATIONS SFA14KX CONFIGURATIONS: START SMALL AND SCALE ON DEMAND 4RU 24RU 44RU 84 RU Up to 72 Slots Up to 522 Slots* Up to 972 Slots* Up to 1,872 Slots* TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS SFA14KX SFA14KXE SYSTEM FEATURES Active-Active Storage Controller in Single 4RU enclosure; Supported Drives: Up to 1,872*; Max Capacity: drive and enclosure dependent (currently 21.7PB); 2 Compute Controllers: 4 x 18-core Intel CPUs, 512GB DDR4 memory; 72 x 12Gb/s SAS 2.5” slots; 4 x 480GB SSD System Drives; 4 x 480GB SSD Virtual Machine Drives (SFA14KXE); Redundant Power HOST, STORAGE FABRIC AND NETWORK PORTS 12x InfiniBand™ EDR/FDR; 24x Fibre Channel (FC16) Ports 8x InfiniBand™ EDR/FDR/Ethernet, 40/100GbE Ethernet, 4x on Intel® Omni-Path SYSTEM FABRIC AND EXPANSION PORTS 24x SAS 12Gb/s (4 Lane Mini-SAS HD) SOFTWARE FEATURES SFX®, LUN Mapping and Masking, Intelligent Write Striping, Read QoS, Port Zoning Detection, Data-At-Rest Encryption, DirectProtect Data Integrity Check/Correction, Python Space API, CLUI and Web GUI, SNMP Notification DRIVE ENCLOSURE MODELS SS8462: 4U, 84 Drive Enclosure; SS9012: 4U, 90 Drive Enclosure SUPPORTED RAID LEVELS AND DCR CONFIGURATIONS RAID 6: 8+2, 4+2; RAID 5: 8+1, 4+1; RAID 1: 1+1 *Using SS9012 Enclosures Back to Top We have so much to be grateful for this year, especially all of you! So, from all of us here at DDN, we are sending… https://t.co/oXDHGqatsc about 2 days ago CONTACT SALES RSS FEED SUPPORT CENTER REACH OUT 1.800.837.2298 1.818.700.4000 Twitter LinkedIn Youtube Instagram © 2021 DataDirect Networks, All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy *Other Names and Brands May Be Claimed as the Property of Others. Product Overview Customers Support Partner Program E-Waste Program Blog Events About Us Resource Library Careers News Center Office Locations DDN Japan Contact Us LinkedIn Twitter Please see our Privacy Policy to learn more about how we use cookies and how to change your settings if you do not want cookies on your computer. By continuing to use this site without changing your cookies settings, you consent to the use of our cookies. Privacy Policy ACCEPT QUESTIONS? Contact a Storage Specialist!