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1.1 OpenFlex™ F3100 and E3000
The OpenFlex™ F3100 and E3000 is a 3U rack
mounted data storage enclosure built on the
OpenFlex platform. OpenFlex is Western Digital's
architecture that supports Open Composable
Infrastructure (OCI). The OpenFlex F3100 and
E3000 are fabric devices that leverage this OCI
approach in the form of disagreggated data storage
using NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF). NVMe-oF is
a networked storage protocol that allows storage
to be disaggregated from compute to make that
storage widely available to multiple applications
and servers. By enabling applications to share a
common pool of storage capacity, data can be easily
shared between applications, or needed capacity
can be allocated to an application regardless of location. Exploiting NVMe device-level performance,
NVMe-oF promises to deliver the lowest end-to-end latency from application to shared storage. NVMe-
oF enables composable infrastructures to deliver the data locality benefits of NVMe DAS (low latency, high
performance) while providing the agility and flexibility of sharing storage and compute.
The maximum data storage capacity is 614TB
The enclosure runs on an input voltage of 200V - 240V and consumes ~1400W of power under typical
conditions. It requires a maximum of 1600W at full load.
Composable Infrastructure
An emerging category of
datacenter infrastructure that
seeks to disaggregate compute,
storage, and networking fabric
resources into shared resource
pools that can be available
for on-demand allocation (i.e.,
"composable"). Composability
occurs at the software level,
disaggregation occurs at the
hardware level using NVMe™-
over-Fabric—will vastly improve
compute and storage utilization,
performance, and agility in the
data center.
• 614TB
*
• 12GBps NVMe-oF over QSFP28
Cables
• 68.5 kg / 151.1 lbs.
* Max storage capacity depends on device version and device configuration.
*
when leveraging a full set of 10 F3100 fabric devices.
OpenFlex
OpenFlex is Western Digital's
architecture that supports Open
Composable Infrastructure
through storage disaggregation
– both disk and flash natively
attached to a scalable fabric.
OpenFlex does not rule out
multiple fabrics, but whenever
possible, Ethernet will be used as
a unifying connect for both flash
and disk because of its broad
applicability and availability.
• 200V - 240V Input Voltages
• 3U Form Factor
• Hot-swappable PSUs and Fans
1.1 OpenFlex™ F3100 and E3000
Open Composable API
Western Digital's new Open
Composable API is designed
for data center composability.
It builds upon existing industry
standards utilizing the best
features of those standards as
well as practices from proprietary
management protocols.
• Dual 1600W PSUs
• Operational Temperature: 5°C to
35°C
• Dynamic Provisioning Supported
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