Paper Title: Evaluating NVMe Storage over different transports with Pavilion Data Systems

Paper Abstract: The easiest way to implement NVMe-based shared storage today is by using the NVMe interface with the omnipresent TCP transport (the basic protocol for Ethernet). The advantages of this approach include the use of two popular standards (NVMe and TCP), high performance, low latency, wide familiarity with TCP in data centers and networks, and an extensive ecosystem with strong hardware and software support. The result is low-latency storage suitable for a wide variety of applications that is easy to implement and manage. Pavilion Data, a developer of high-speed storage platforms for cloud applications, has used NVMe-oF over TCP and ROCE in a storage array suitable for use with massively parallel datasets. In this session, the use cases for the different transports, along with performance results, will be discussed.

Paper Author: Jeff Sosa, Head of Products, Pavilion Data

Author Bio: Jeff Sosa is Head of Products at Pavilion Data Systems, a developer of high-speed storage platforms for rack-scale cloud applications. He handles product marketing and management for Pavilion’s advanced low-latency NVMe-based shared storage system. Before joining Pavilion, Jeff was Global Director of Product Management at Western Digital, where he was responsible for a high-growth PCIe SSD product line. He also worked at Fusion-IO, where he managed the development of PCIe-based storage hardware and software. He has over 15 years of storage industry experience, as well as a decade of experience in software engineering roles. He earned an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sonoma State University (CA).