Boot Devices are a critical component of servers used at scale in the Data Center. The needs and use cases for boot drives in the Data Center are very different than client HDD and Flash based boot drives in laptop applications. This talk will describe the differences between client boot drive use cases and hyperscale use cases. This talk will describe hyperscale use-cases for boot drives, unique needs Hyper-Scalars have for flash based boot drives and hyperscale challenges when deploying flash based boot drives at-scale.

This paper looks back at the analysis that has been done for the drive wear-out issue on for the different E-series array systems running at different customers’ sites and uses that data to give more specific guidance on thresholds for a preemptive drive removal. Motivation of DHM: Customers with old ventage or Refurbished drive replacement may experience a data loss event and continues to see a high drive failure rate >5% AFR (Annual Failure Rate). Storage vendors expect to see high fallout rates across the hard drive population as they age.

We describe a replacement for RAID 6, based on a new linear, systematic code, which detects and corrects any combination of E errors (unknown location) and Z erasures (known location) provided that Z+2E≤4. The code is at the core of a RAID technology called PentaRAID, for which the two co-inventors were awarded a US utility patent. The problem that we address is that of weak data protection of RAID 6 systems. The known vulnerability is that RAID 6 may recover from not more than 2 failed disks in a RAID, if we know which disks failed.

The SNIA Swordfish™ ecosystem is supported by open source tools, available in open repositories that are managed by the SNIA Scalable Storage Management Technical Working Group on GitHub, and the DMTF Redfish Forum, also on Github. This session will walk through the tools you can use to go from zero to working SNIA Swordfish implementations.

The SSM TWG and OFA OFMFWG are working together to bring to life an open source Open Fabric Management Framework, with a Redfish/Swordfish management model and interface. This presentation will provide an overview of the status of this work, and a demo of the current state of the proof of concept, built leveraging the Redfish and Swordfish-based open source emulator.

The SNIA Swordfish specification has expanded to include full NVMe and NVMe-oF enablement and alignment across DMTF, NVMe, and SNIA for NVMe and NVMe-oF use cases. This presentation will provide an overview of the most recent work adding detailed implementation requirements for specific configurations, ensuring NVMe and NVMe-oF environments can be represented entirely in Swordfish and Redfish environments.

Infrastructure Processing Units (IPU) is an evolution of SmartNIC, focusing on infrastructure processing such as networking offload and storage offload. IPU is a critical ingredient in the disaggregated computer architectures and becomes a control point in the DC-oF (Data Center of the Future). In this talk, we would like to share the NVMe over TCP Initiator implementation as an example for IPU based storage offload, focusing on SPDK (https://spdk.io) support for IPU based NVMe over TCP Initiator solution.

NVMe-oF drives can support NVMe over ethernet, but how do you manage them? This presentation will show how Swordfish has developed a standard model for NVMe ethernet-attached drives, providing detailed profiles as guidance for implementations including required and recommended properties. The profiles are now part of the Swordfish CTP program; ethernet attached drives can validate conformance to the specifications by participating.

Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) is a proposed standard for a memory to memory data movement and acceleration interface. Software memcpy is the current data movement standard for software implementation due to stable CPU ISA. However, this takes away from application performance and incurs software overhead to provide context isolation. Offload DMA engines and their interface are vendor-specific and not standardized for user-level software.

DEM is an open source simulator/emulator, providing an RF/SF interface, on top of an NVMe / NVMe-oF emulation environment. DEM enables centralized, efficient, and dynamic configuration and provisioning of NVMe-oF Resources.