Bug detection and triaging in complex storage systems pose unique challenges that distinguish them from general-purpose or SaaS-based software. Unlike conventional code which largely operates in a straightforward user space, storage solutions must seamlessly integrate with the operating system kernel, device drivers, and underlying hardware devices. This tight coupling introduces additional complexity in logging, concurrency, and operational flow.

As SSD capacities increase beyond 16TB, the time to randomly precondition these drives has also increased from several hours to several days. Traditional methods involve a sequential write followed by multiple random writes to reach a steady state. We present Sprandom (SanDisk Pseudo Random) – a novel approach to random preconditioning that uses the Flexible I/O Tester (fio) to achieve near steady-state performance with just a single physical drive write.

This talk will focus on areas of SNIA and OCP community overlap and collaboration, discussing our new alliance and OCP work areas as they relate to SNIA technical work groups: 

- OCP's Storage top-level project and 3 workstream 

- OCP's Composable Memory Systems (CMS) project - OCP's Open Systems for AI strategic initiative and Open Cluster Designs for AI 

- OCP's Networking project and OCP FTI workstreams: DCC and SROI 

- Other OCP areas of interest to the audience hardware management, cooling, OCP S.A.F.E certification of equipment

The state of Fibre Channel is exciting as we embark on the development of 256GFC (aka Gen 9 Fibre Channel)! With 128GFC products coming out at the end of this year, the Fibre Channel community is feverishly working on the next generation speeds. Now is the time to step back a bit and view the Fibre Channel roadmap. In this session, we discuss the technical challenges associated with the creation of 256GFC products as well as explore the features of Gen 8 Fibre Channel.