Application Advantages of NVMe over Fabrics – RDMA and Fibre Channel | SNIA

Abstract

NVMe is being adopted inside the server to unlock the performance of solid state drives as well as newer persistent memory solutions. The next logical step is to leverage the optimized NVMe over fabrics to extend and improve application performance with large amounts of networked storage. NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) and NVMe over RDMA standards are under definition and generating market interest. These new standards bring the performance, built-in congestion management, and ease of use that Fibre Channel brings to Enterprise Datacenters. In this presentation, we will discuss:

Learning Objectives

NVMe adoption trends from the disk driver to the storage array
Key features of high performance networked storage arrays
NVMe over FC plug-in-play with current FC lossless networks
Application advantages of leveraging NVMe over Fibre Channel
Comparison of NVMe over Fibre Channel and NVMe over RDMA