WhipTail XLR8r

The First All Flash-Based Storage Array

Three years, tens of thousands of end-users impacted, and trillions of IO provided since its debut on the market, the WhipTail XLR8r continues to transform the world of enterprise storage. As the first all flash-based storage array, the XLR8r removes the inherent challenges of flash-based solid-state media by way of our Racerunner OS and maximizes cost-per-IO. WhipTail’s technology transcends in the following critical areas: performance, endurance, and price.

 

Performance Numbers: IO, Throughput, & Latency

Here’s the information on our numbers without the hype or half-truths, just the real world numbers our clients experience when using the XLR8r.

IO – 250,000 WRITE IO / 200,000 READ IO
Not a caching appliance or PCie card, the XLR8r is highly tuned for low latency and high IO environments where performance is key. Offering real-world performance numbers of 250,000 IO/s with a jaw-dropping 0.1 MS of latency, the XLR8r is purpose-built. Its underlying technology solves the fundamental IT issue others failed to resolve: IOs.

Throughput
The XLR8r sends 1.5 gigabytes of data through per second. That’s the equivalent of moving the entire Harry Potter DVD collection in the time it took you to read this sentence.

Latency
Hard disk drive (HDD) storage arrays reached their peak years ago–they’re plagued by rotational latency, usually around 6-9 milliseconds. This is a lifetime in virtualization and high IO database environments. The XLR8r’s essentially nonexistent latency (.1 millisecond) means reports that previously took days only take hours or minutes with the XLR8r.

 

Endurance

WhipTail’s Racerunner operating system introduces a number of I/O handling techniques to mitigate the write performance and endurance issues native to solid state disk. Another Racerunner strength is its linearization, or wear-leveling algorithm, which commits all writes across the entire array, avoiding hot spots and premature wear. In effect, 100% random write workloads are committed in a 100% sequential fashion.

 

Price

We offer the world’s first commercially available–and not budget busting–all flash-based array. The XLR8r’s cost point is poignantly less expensive based on our manufacturing process and Racerunner OS. Breaking free from past solid-state arrays that were constructed with custom asics and excessive hardware, the XLR8r is elegantly and efficiently built.
To learn more, download the XLR8r Specification Sheet and the XLR8r Brief.

Attribute	WT1500	WT3000	WT6000	WT12000
Capacity- TB	1.5 TB	3.0 TB	6.0 TB	12.0 TB
IOPS	250,000 WRITE	250,000 WRITE	250,000 WRITE	250,000 WRITE
Bandwidth – GB/s	1.9 GB/s	1.9 GB/s	1.9 GB/s	1.9 GB/s
Latency	0.1 ms	0.1 ms	0.1 ms	0.1 ms
Drive Protection	Raid 5 with Hot Spare	Raid 5 with Hot Spare	Raid 5 with Hot Spare	Raid 5 with Hot Spare
Power Supply – Redundant, Hot Swap	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Size	2U	2U	2U	2U
Power Consumption	< 200 W	< 200 W	< 200 W	< 200 W
Interfaces	Ethernet:10GbE and 1GbE	Ethernet:10GbE and 1GbE	Ethernet:10GbE and 1GbE	Ethernet:10GbE and 1GbE
	Fibre Channel: 8Gb and 4Gb	Fibre Channel: 8Gb and 4Gb	Fibre Channel: 8Gb and 4Gb	Fibre Channel: 8Gb and 4Gb
	InfiniBand: 40Gb	InfiniBand: 40Gb	InfiniBand: 40Gb	InfiniBand: 40Gb