NVMe™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) Explained
You may have heard of NVMe over Fabrics, or its acronym NVMe-oF, but you may still not be clear on what exactly it is and how it will impact or affect your IT infrastructure. Here’s NVMe-oF explained.
NVMe – What is it?
Before we dive into NVMe-oF let’s take a step back to make sure we understand the foundation – NVMe.
Early flash storage devices were connected via SATA or SAS – protocols that were developed decades ago for hard disk drives (HDDs) and are still widely used for data infrastructure. SATA and SAS connected flash storage provided huge performance gains over HDDs. Yet, as speeds increased – on CPUs, backplanes, DRAM, and networks – the SATA and SAS protocols began to limit the performance from flash devices. SATA and SAS protocols accounted for HDD characteristics, such as rotational delay, head seek times, etc. that add unnecessary complexity for flash-based media. In order to take full advantage of flash stor
Operator
Good day, and welcome to the first-quarter 2021 Hewlett Packard Enterprise earnings conference call. My name is Cole, and I ll be your conference moderator for today s call. [Operator instructions] And as a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today s call, Mr.
Andrew Simanek, vice president of investor relations. Please proceed.
Andy Simanek
Head of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I m Andy Simanek, head of investor relations for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
I d like to welcome you to our fiscal 2021 first-quarter earnings conference call with Antonio Neri, HPE s president and chief executive officer; and Tarek Robbiati, HPE s executive vice president and chief financial officer. Before handing the call over to Antonio, let me remind you that this call is being webcast. A replay of the webcast will be made available shortly after the call for app
Halifax Health, Daytona Beach, Florida
Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, Halifax Health serves Volusia and Flagler counties and provides a continuum of healthcare services through a broad network of different facilities.
These include a tertiary hospital, two community hospitals, an urgent care facility, psychiatric services, a cancer treatment center with five outreach locations, the area s largest hospice, a center for inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, primary care walk-in clinics, a clinic specializing in women s health, a pediatric care community clinic, three children s medical practices, a home healthcare agency and an exclusive provider organization.
THE PROBLEM We wanted to create multiple instances of our Meditech EHR environment, said Mike Marques, CIO at Halifax Health. While our two Meditech instances lived on one storage array, we aimed to extend Meditech across multiple arrays to increase resiliency and ensure business continuity.