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NVMe: Lower Prices, More Features Expand Use Cases

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June 4, 2019

The wide adoption of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over the last few years has completely revolutionized the storage industry in no small part due to lower prices and better performance. With the introduction of more features, such as management, more enterprises and hyperscale data centers are migrating to NVMe. The introduction of NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) promises to accelerate this trend for enterprises using a variety of infrastructures.

NVMe is architected with a layered approach, which enables NVMe data...

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UNH-IOL Adds NVMe over TCP Testing

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March 14, 2019

The University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) has expanded its Non-Volatile-Memory-Express-over-Fabric (NVMe-oF) testing capabilities to include NVMe over TCP. Ratified in November 2018, the NVMe/TCP spec adds Transmission Control Protocol to the list of NVMe transport protocols, which previously included Fibre Channel, remote direct memory access (RDMA), and PCIe. “NVMe/TCP adds the most commonly used networking protocol to NVMe,” said David Woolf, senior engineer for data-center technologies at UNH-IOL, in a telephone interview with EE Times. “It will let...

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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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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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