SANBlaze Technology Inc. announced the expansion of its industry-first NVMe
over PCIe 5.0 validation and compliance testing system from traditional
SSD manufacturers to new markets comprised of data center storage and
large cloud vendors.
"Customer
confidence has grown beyond our traditional walls of satisfying
requirements from major SSD manufacturers to supporting large data
centers and cloud storage organizations," said Rick Walsh, VP of Sales
and Marketing. "This evolution stems from our first-to-market leadership
for early adoption and development of NVMe PCIe Gen5. Early
availability was a critical factor in enabling our key strategic
customers to meet their internal development schedules for Gen 5 SSD's
and FCS releases."
"SANBlaze
partnered with WD to get our Gen5 Validation infrastructure ready in
time including SRIS/SRNS clocking features which helped to fast track
our overall Gen5 bring up," said Anuj Awasthi, Senior Director, System
Design and Firmware Verification Engineering, Western Digital Corp.
In
addition to SSD manufacturers such as Western Digital, SANBlaze is
onboarding new major cloud and data center storage providers as they
recognize the capabilities and value of the Certified by SANBlaze test suites as a first-level SSD validation criterion. Certified by SANBlaze is an instant benchmarking tool that saves on CapEx overhead expenses for SSD compute applications.
SANBlaze Suite of Products
SANBlaze
solutions include the SBExpress-RM5 rackmount appliance, the
SBExpress-DT5 desktop appliance, and the industry benchmark SBExpress Certified by SANBlaze software,
which provides over 900 ready-to-go tests and scripts. These latest
PCIe 5.0 platforms provide broad test capabilities for development, QA,
validation, and manufacturing teams in data centers large and small.
SBExpress-RM5
The
SBExpress-RM5 is a 16-bay enterprise-class NVMe test appliance
supporting hot-plug and all link speeds up through PCIe 5.0. The system
features a unique modular "riser" design that enables user-configurable
variable slot support, as well as field-upgradable support for all PCIe
5.0 connector form factors, including U.2, M.2, EDSFF, and the new
E3/EDSFF. The ability to margin and measure power, glitch signals, and
test spread spectrum clocking (SSC) or conventional clocking in both
common and SRIS/SRNS modes sets the SBExpress-RM5 apart from all others
in the NVMe SSD testing space. Data integrity is verified with a
comprehensive suite of read/write/compare tests, with exception cases
such as power glitching while running IO, and built-in "Write Atomicity"
testing as part of the Certified by SANBlaze test
suite. Testing is accessible through a web interface to the appliance
or via Python, XML and REST APIs, which come standard with the system.
The SBExpress Gen5 software includes over nine-hundred test scripts to
enable IOL testing in the customer's lab, before undergoing official
testing, as well as ZNS, VDM, and TCG Opal verification.
SBExpress-DT5
The
SBExpress-DT5 is the sixth-generation SBExpress system and is both
evolutionary, growing from its successful family of predecessors, and
revolutionary, with advanced test capabilities such as Vendor Defined
Messaging (VDM) testing, MI (Management Interface) in-band, and SMBUS
testing at 1MHz. All features of the enterprise test suite Certified by SANBlaze are supported by DT5 at PCIe 5.0 speed.