NVMe over Fabrics

Find the latest news and advice for using NVMe over Fabrics, which lets you network non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives over Fibre Channel or by using RDMA over converged Ethernet or InfiniBand. NVMe over Fabrics enables the use of alternate transports to PCIe to extend the distance over which an NVMe host device and an NVMe storage drive or subsystem can connect.

April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21
Excelero adds option to pool NVMe storage on Azure cloud

A new deployment option for Excelero's NVMesh software-defined storage will target some of the most demanding applications running on Microsoft Azure virtual machines.
January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21
QLC flash drives are hot '21 trend, pressure HDDs on price

Hot 2021 trends in memory and storage will include the ramp of QLC SSDs in enterprise flash arrays, pressuring HDDs on price, increasing Optane adoption and NVMe over TCP.
December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20
Lenovo storage expands NVMe with midrange DM ThinkSystem

Server vendor Lenovo wants to grow its ThinkSystem storage business. The DM5100F NVMe Lenovo storage array integrates S3 protocol for unified data management.
November 24, 2020 24 Nov'20
Dense processing fuels Pavilion Data storage performance

Pavilion Hyperparallel Flash Array clusters multiple controllers in unified namespace that spans racks and chassis. Pavilion storage scales 2.2 PB of raw NVMe flash.

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Flash memory standards and interfaces every IT admin should know

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NVMe speeds vs. SATA and SAS: Which is fastest?

The NVMe protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces. Continue Reading
How do data processing units support enterprise storage?

While only a small number of hardware vendors offer DPUs, the technology has significant implications for IT storage systems -- and the admins who manage them. Continue Reading
High-performance interconnects and storage performance

Should you use InfiniBand or RDMA over Converged Ethernet as an interconnect? We discuss each technology's effect on performance features such as latency, IOPS and throughput. Continue Reading

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With release of vSphere 7, VMware takes NVMe-oF mainstream

VMware's support of NVMe-oF means organizations might be able to significantly improve the performance of their application environments without changing any data center hardware. Continue Reading
How to solve storage latency issues when deploying NVME-oF

The storage network is key to solving latency problems. Get the big picture on NVMe-oF issues and the roles of performance monitoring and high-performance interconnects. Continue Reading

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NVMe performance challenges expose the CPU chokepoint

NVMe systems have diminishing marginal performance gains when hardware is added and storage software consumes more CPU resources. Discover how to address this problem. Continue Reading
4 NVMe storage problems you can prevent before they happen

Implementing NVMe storage is complicated, from knowing what to ask when buying NVMe SSDs and arrays to what type of file system to use. Here's how to deal with four NVMe issues. Continue Reading
NVMe-oF and storage class memory set to disrupt storage

NVM Express over Fabrics and storage class memory may disrupt traditional storage over the next half decade in much the same way NAND flash did over the last five years. Continue Reading