NVM Express® (NVMe®) technology has become synonymous with high-performance storage seeing widespread adoption in client, cloud and enterprise applications. Since the release of the NVMe 2.0 family of specifications, the NVM Express organization has released a number of new features to allow for faster and simpler development of NVMe solutions in order to support increasingly diverse environments.

The conflicting needs of datacenters managers hosting 3rd party and internal data securely and storage vendors needing to have a stream of vendor unique fleet telemetry for monitoring and debug has historically not found a scalable solution. This paper describes how a new proposal driven from the OCP Storage Workgroup facilitating standardized telemetry to be securely shared with storage vendors enabling vendor deep learning failure analysis and debug. The approach even allows vendor specific telemetry in a standard way vs current solutions such as NVMe SMART.

This presentation by provides an overview of the NVM Express® ratified technical proposal TP4146 Flexible Data Placement and shows how a host can manage its user data to capitalize on a lower Write Amplification Factor (WAF) by an SSD to extend the life of the device, improve performance, and lower latency.

NVM Express® is in the process of standardizing the Live Migration of a controller from one server to another. That work has already ratified TP4165 Tracking LBA Allocation with Granularity and has made significant changes to TP4159 PCIe Infrastructure for Live Migration. This presentation details the new capabilities the standardization that allows a host to seamless migrate a Virtual Machine (VM) and associated resources without affecting the user experience for use in datacenter load balancing and system maintenance.

AI is driving the need for more data movement between devices, boxes, and racks. This data transport requires higher bandwidths which puts strain on the interconnects as well as host and device designs. While you could tackle these problems on your own, instead come and ask questions of our expert panel from the SFF Technical Work Group to see if they can address your concerns. This will be an open Q&A where we want to hear your concerns so we can address them through industry aligned solutions.

Now that NVMe™ has ratified TP4159 PCIe® Infrastructure for Live Migration, it is time to show the final details of how NVMe controllers in direct attached PCIe SSDs can be migrated from one server to the next for use cases such as workload balancing and maintenance. In this presentation I will detail the new commands, new events, new queues, updates to existing commands, and vendor specific options. This presentation will cover how a host utilizes the new protocol to migrate a controller.

The migration of a VM and the attached local NVM Express™ SSDs from one server to a different server does not provide a standard mechanism to guarantee that the information returned to the VM by Admin commands after the migration will be changed due to the different SSDs.