Using SmartNICs as a new platform for Storage Services

Since its ratification in 2016, NVMe over Fabrics has become the accepted protocol for disaggregating NVMe media. Even as more features get added, such as support for TCP as a transport, universal adoption of NVMe over Fabrics has been slow due to the challenges of deploying across any OS and hypervisor platform as well as supporting the Storage Services required in a production environment. SmartNICs are a new platform with the necessary features and capabilities to enable this. This presentation will focus on how SmartNICs can be used to solve problems such as: integration into any OS, high performance support for RoCE or TCP transports, offloading host with storage services like on-the-fly encryption, RAID, and more