Paper Title: NVMe-oF: Benefits and Use Cases for Production Applications

Paper Abstract: As NVMe-oF is gaining momentum and more organizations are interested in what that means for their products, architectures, and infrastructure. Over the last year there has been an increase in the NVMe-oF ecosystem software and hardware support. The question most organizations are looking to answer is where and when to look at adopting NVMe-oF. NVMe-oF is a diverse technology and can be consumed by end users as well as product vendors. This presentation will take a look at the benefits of NVMe-oF as a back-end transport for expanding NVMe scale. It will also examine NVMe-oF as a front-end transport for enhancing application performance, enabling new architectures, and expanding the benefit of shared storage to new applications. We will provide examples and real world use cases where NVMe-oF has been used. We will also discuss the journey to NVMe-oF and considerations that need to be taken when choosing a transport.

Paper Author: Steve McQuerry, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Pure Storage

Author Bio: Steve McQuerry is a Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer on the platform team at Pure Storage. One of his areas of focus is helping customers understand the use cases and best practices for deploying NVMe-oF with FlashArray. Steve is a CCIE Emeritus (CCIE #6108) is a 20+ year data center veteran. For the last 16 years he has held both field and product positions for storage, networking, and compute OEMs. Steve has published multiple networking books and has been recognized as distinguished speaker at industry events. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from Eastern Kentucky University.