Written by Murali Rajagopal, PhD- VMware Storage Architect, Office of the CTO There is much in the way of NVMe ExpressTM (NVMeTM) literature publicly available especially surrounding SSDs – mainly originating from device manufacturers. This blog provides a grand overview of the NVM ExpressTM technology, the eco-system, NVM ExpressTM specifications, devices and interfaces. It is [...]
NVM Express, Inc. Announces NVMe-MI™ 1.1 Specification in Ratification Awaited Specification Defines a Standard for NVMe™ Enclosure Management and More December 05, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NVM Express, Inc. today announced the pending availability of the NVMe™ Management Interface (NVMe-MI™) specification. The NVMe-MI 1.1 release standardizes NVMe enclosure management, provides the [...]
Authors: Sagi Grimberg, Chief SW Architect, Lightbits Labs and Dave Minturn, Intel Corp., Fabrics Linux Driver WG Chair This week the ratified NVMe™/TCP Transport Binding specification has been made available for public download. TCP is a new transport added to the family of existing NVMe™ transports; PCIe®, RDMA, and FC. NVMe/TCP defines the mapping of [...]
By Brandon Hoff I recently presented a webcast on NVM Express® over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) and gave a rundown on what’s new for NVMe-oF in 2018. Since the NVMe-oF specification’s official release in May 2016, we have seen a lot of excitement building. In my webcast, I deliver a high-level overview of the NVMe-oF content we [...]
The Storage Developer Conference 2018 (SDC 18), hosted by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), will be held on September 24-27 in Santa Clara, CA and is a must-attend event for those in the storage industry. Attendees will have the opportunity to acquire training on hot industry topics like NVMe™ and NVMe over Fabrics, persistent [...]
Join Brandon Hoff, distinguished software architect at Broadcom, as he provides particulars about the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) 2018 updates on Tuesday, September 25 from 9:00 – 10:00 am (United States – Los Angeles). NVMe-oF is the defacto standard for extending the NVMe architecture in a scalable manner over mainstream interconnects. This webcast will provide [...]
By Amber Huffman Members of NVM Express, Inc. have recently returned from sunny Santa Clara, where we attended yet another Flash Memory Summit. The event was devoted to providing the storage community with the latest technology updates, forecasts, and roadmaps for non-volatile memory—but it also indicated that NVM Express is more prominent than ever and [...]
By J Metz and Bill Lynn Welcome to part III of our blog series, “NVMe™ Form Factors”. If you’re joining us late, don’t worry. You can catch up on part I and part II and then meet us back here for the finale. Now that we’ve talked through the history of NVMe and its building [...]
By J Metz and Bill Lynn Thank you for joining us for Part II of our blog series, “NVMe Form Factors”. If you missed part I, you can catch up here. Now let’s get down to the topic at hand—the building blocks of NVMe™. Building Blocks An SSD consists of an SSD controller chip, some [...]
By J Metz and Bill Lynn Non-Volatile Memory Express (what a mouthful!) has become top-of-mind when it comes to advances being made in the tech world. In a very short period of time, NVMe™ seems to be everywhere. It’s been the hot topic for developer conferences, storage conferences, data center blogs – and rightfully so. [...]
