High Performance Primary Storage
Violin 6000 Series flash Memory Arrays are all-silicon systems with the reliability, performance, and economics to be deployed as mission critical primary storage. Violin Memory Arrays are tightly integrated systems built from the chip to the chassis to intelligently aggregate flash memory. This ‘Rack-in-a-Box’ approach results in a system that can be deployed with confidence as a strategic network resource in the data center.

6000 Series arrays bring storage performance in balance with high speed compute and networking and offer a significant opportunity for infrastructure consolidation. A single system fits in 3U of rack space and can deliver one million IOPS with 4 GB/sec of bandwidth – enough performance to replace multiple racks of traditional disk arrays for savings of both CAPEX and OPEX. The arrays attach to the network for shared primary storage. Multiple arrays can be clustered together to achieve petabytes (PB) of capacity and high aggregate bandwidth.

“Standalone solid state storage systems supporting business or mission critical business applications need to deliver more than just order of magnitude performance and throughput improvements over storage systems that support SSDs as second level cache or as another tier of storage. They need to deliver availability, ease of use and maintenance features that equal or exceed those of the storage systems they are offloading while lowering overall storage infrastructure costs.”

Stan Zaffos, Research VP, Gartner

High Availability with Blazing Performance
Delivering mission critical availability without compromising performance requires a sophisticated systems approach that tightly integrates hardware and software. Key availability features include:

• Fully Redundant components
• No Single Point of Failure (SPOF)
• Hot-swap everything
• Active-active vRAID controllers
• Spare VIMMs (fail-in-place)
• System wide wear leveling

Violin Memory Arrays deliver spike-free low latency and balanced read/write performance. Violin’s flash-optimized vRAID stripes data across multiple VIMMs for parallel access and reduces latency with non-blocking erases.

Performance Flash Technology
The Violin 6616 is based on Single Level Cell (SLC) flash memory and optimized for high IOPS and low latency while still providing robust RAID protection, ultra-low response times, high transaction rates, and real-time queries of large datasets.

Capacity Flash Technology
The Violin 6232 is based on Multi Level Cell (MLC) flash memory and optimized for high capacity while still providing robust RAID protection. Violin’s unique vRAID-enabled MLC results in the fastest MLC Memory in the industry.

Violin Memory System Software
All Violin Memory Arrays run the same system and management software. The software is tightly integrated with the hardware for a highly optimized flash system that is simple to manage.

Network Attached	Efficiency	Management
vSHARE software runs on one or more memory gateways (internal or external to the memory array) virtualizing the flash resources and providing dynamic LUN management functions. It provides high performance active-active multipath connectivity, block storage functions, and implements Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI protocols.	vRAID ensures predictable sustained performance and efficient use of flash resources. Data is striped across multiple VIMMs in a 4D + 1P model that is 80% efficient and protects data in the event of block, chip or VIMM failure. Most importantly vRAID ensures predictable performance through massively parallel access to data and the use of non-blocking erases.	vCLUSTER provides an integrated view of multiple Memory Arrays from a single pane of glass – the Violin web-based management interface. System management is also provided via standard IP tools such as SSH and email call-home. An XML API is used for cloud scale operations.

vCLUSTER Web Management Interface

Violin 6000 Specifications