OpenFlex E3000/F3100 Composable Infrastructure

Highly Scalable and Flexible Resource Utilization

OVERVIEW

The Future of Data Infrastructure

Composable infrastructure is a new architectural approach that uses NVMe™-over-Fabric to dramatically improve compute and storage utilization, performance, and agility in the data center. With the exponential growth in data, along with the increasing diversity of workflows and demands on IT infrastructure, businesses need to increase speed, agility and time-to-value for their customers.

OpenFlex architecture and products allow storage to be disaggregated from compute, enabling applications to share a common pool of storage capacity. Data can easily be shared between applications, or needed capacity can be allocated to an application regardless of location.

Highlights

Composable, shareable high-performance storage

Access data from anywhere in the data center

Lower CapEx and OpEx by reducing resource over-provisioning

Manageable through existing data center orchestration frameworks

Reduce stranded or underutilized resources

Dynamic provisioning: scale down resources as easily as you scale up

Applications and Workload

High-Performance, Low-Latency Apps

Database

Data Analytics

Rack-Scale Flexible Infrastructure

Software-Defined Storage Environments

Private Cloud

Big Data Applications

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Western Digital OpenFlex Architecture Overview

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OpenFlex Product Line

Highly Scalable and Flexible

Composable

Share and manage physical resources with a common interface and API

Disaggregated

Disaggregate storage and compute for independent scaling

Extensible

Independently scale flash and disk storage over the same fabric