SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Aravind Ramesh
Principal Engineer
Western Digital
I am currently Principal Engineer at WDC Research. Working on Zoned Namespaces from last 3 years and OCSSD for a while before that. I have worked on enabling the ZNS SSDs in F2fs filesystem and in other applications across the software stack. I have worked on distributed systems, high availability systems, replication technologies and storage controller software and caching solutions. I have around 15 years of experience in storage domain and have worked across the stack from storage controller software development, kernel, filesystems, user space applications including databases and distributed systems and other replication software. I have presented a ZNS presentation in SDC India(2020).
Related Sessions
Boosting the Performance and QoS of MySQL with ZNS SSDs
Zoned Namespace SSDs are SSDs that implement the ZNS command set as specified by the NVM Express organization. ZNS SSDs provide an interface to the host such that the host/applications can manage the data placement on these SSDs directly. This presentation plans to cover the basics of ZNS SSDs and demonstrate the software stack through which MySQL can be run on ZNS SSDs. MySQL integrated with RocksDB is called MyRocks, this presentation discusses about ZNS support in RocksDB and MySQL and evaluate the performance of and QoS benefits for MySQL on a ZNS SSD viz-a-viz a conventional SSD.