Paper Title: How are you going to manage disaggregated NVMe-oF storage?

Paper Abstract: New NVMe™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) enclosures will soon be available from multiple vendors. These new enclosures will require additional enclosure management procedures over and above the SES3 commands that have been historically used to manage SAS enclosures. This presents a challenge for users as the NVMe-oF standard does not yet include a single cohesive method to manage the enclosure, the devices and the storage processors within that enclosure. Without a common management standard, users will be required to build frameworks around multiple vendor specific or proprietary APIs. This presentation will explore what is needed for the anticipated wide deployment of new disaggregated NVMe-oF storage enclosures. Such topics as Client authentication & security, Atomic administration across multiple devices, Enclosure monitoring, Storage provisioning, and Event messaging and alerts will be discussed. Target audience includes data center architects, DevOps, and scale-out application development teams who need to think ahead about how they are going to control and manage desegregated fabric based storage.

Paper Author: Barrett Edwards, Director of Product Management, Western Digital

Author Bio: Barrett Edwards is a Director of Product Management in the Platforms Business Unit at Western Digital. He is responsible for managing the product planning and marketing activities for a portfolio of NVMe-over-Fabric platform products. Previously he held Product Management, Program Management, and Product Marketing responsibilities at SanDisk and Fusion-io for multiple PCIe / NVMe storage products as well as software defined network appliances. Barrett earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Master of Business Administration degree from Brigham Young University.