Paper Title: Building Dense NVMe Storage

Paper Abstract: Building extremely dense, high-performance, highly available storage with NVMe drives is challenging, particularly with regard to the limitations of the software stack. Providing distributed data protection and fault tolerance, while still maintaining performance levels, is a major issue – and traditional RAID methods are not the best solution. Hardware acceleration is necessary, particularly for metadata storage and data protection. A good solution provides close to zero copy with minimal load on the main CPUs using NVMe-oF enabled cards and NVMe RAID.

Paper Author: Mikhail Malygin, Principal Software Engineer, YADRO

Author Bio: Mikhail Malygin is a Principal Software Engineer at YADRO, where he is working on unified storage products. He previously worked for EMC on scale-out object storage and archiving solutions. He has 10 years experience in storage software design and architecture and has technical expertise in distributed systems, scale-out solutions, operating systems, networks, performance, and reliability. He earned an MS in Computer Science from ITMO University (St. Petersburg, Russia). He has contributed to the Linux kernel and has presented at Linux conferences.