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Storage testing evolving from hardware to software

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March 13, 2019

Until a couple of years ago, the best way to test your storage hardware was by using a black box, but now there are more options. The new options are exclusively performed in software, courtesy of Calypso Systems, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and maybe soon from the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory.

Load-testing software isn't new, but it generally works by running sample data through your network. In the Calypso system, released as a specification via...

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UNH-IOL Supports Product Development with the Addition of NVMe/TCP Testing

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March 13, 2019

DURHAM, N.H., March 13, 2019 – The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, today announced it has expanded testing capabilities for NVMe with the addition of a new NVMe™ over TCP (NVMe™/TCP) test services. The emergence of NVMe/TCP extends NVMe across the entire data center and utilizes simple and efficient TCP/IP fabric to provide high performance and reduced deployment costs.

NVMe/TCP is an important...

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The UNH InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) Joins SNIA to Support Interoperability in Storage Networking

February 12, 2019

Durham, N.H., February 12, 2019 -- The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance solutions for the networking industry, is excited to announce they recently joined the Storage Networking Industry Association (S NIA ), which leads the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement and security of information. The goal of joining SNIA is to follow initiatives around...

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NVMe/TCP Conquers The UNH-IOL Plugfest

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January 17, 2019

Entering the New Hampshire University InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) in November 2018, I was surrounded by servers, network cards, Ethernet cables hanging from the ceiling, and a lot of cool nerdy lab rats—like me. We were there to run the first-ever NVMe Over TCP (NVMe/TCP) plugfest.

This Proof of Concept (PoC) plugfest for the new NVMe/TCP protocol would bring together multiple vendors for the first time to validate their hardware and software implementations, specification compliance, and interoperability against each other....

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Kalray First to Receive NVMe-oF Certification for a Fully Integrated System

May 22, 2018

Kalray, a pioneer in processors for new intelligent systems, is proud to announce that its KTC (Kalray Target Controller) solution has been certified1 by the NVM Express organization through the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent testing provider of standard conformance solutions and multi-vendor interoperability. This certification, the first of its kind for a fully integrated system, is an important milestone for Kalray. It demonstrates the level of maturity of its KTC data center solution and its...

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A Storage Story: NVMe over Fabrics and Fibre Channel

April 30, 2018

The next quantum leap in storage technologies is driving the need for faster storage fabrics to transport this data surge. Such an acceleration in storage demand and solutions requires storage transports to provide better overall performance as well as the ability to guarantee Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Of course, the storage solution I’m speaking about Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) and its latest expansion into NVMe over Fabrics.

First some housekeeping. References to NVMe-oF and FC-NVMe are prevalent and cause...

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Industry Outlook: NVMe and NVMe-oF For Storage

February 8, 2018

This week, Industry Outlook asks David Woolf, Senior Engineer of Datacenter Technologies at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), about NVMe and NVMe-oF and their role in storage and the data center. David has developed dozens of industry-reviewed test procedures and implementations as part of the team that has built the UNH-IOL into a world-class center for interoperability and conformance testing. He has also helped to organize numerous industry interoperability test events at both at the UNH-IOL facility...

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UNH-IOL Offers NVMe-oF Testing, Software, List

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January 8, 2018

The University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab is now offering NVMe-oF testing services and related resources. This leading facility, based in Durham, is an NBASE-T member.

NVMe-oF stands for Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics. This standard enables data centers to access flash and solid-state drives over Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks. That allows them to run applications using a much larger storage pool than is possible with NVMe alone.

But in announcing this news, UNH-IOL – which in...

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Second Industry-Wide, Multi-Vendor Plugfest Focused on NVMeTM Over Fibre Channel Fabric Completed by Fibre Channel Industry Association

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January 3, 2018

MINNEAPOLIS, December 13, 2017 – The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the completion of its second industry-wide multi-vendor plugfest focused on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe™) over Fibre Channel (FC) Fabric and the first validation of the newly completed INCITS T11 FCNVMe standard.

FCIA’s FC-NVMe plugfest was held during the NVM Express® organization’s management interface (NVMe-MI) plugfest, the week of October 30, 2017, at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL). An independent provider of...

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Toshiba Memory America’s Storage Node Software Obtains Industry-First NVMe-oF Certification

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December 13, 2017

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the US-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, today announced that its storage node software, which enables low latency networked flash storage for cloud architectures, was the first to be certified by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). As the leading testing and certification lab for NVMe technology and software, the UNH-IOL thoroughly tested TMA’s software with RoCE NIC in the storage node at its NVMe Plugfest #8, held October 30...

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