Paper Title: Advancing NVMe-oF Adoption Based on Practical Experience

Paper Abstract: Hyperscalers, financial services firms, HPC organizations, and leaders in media and entertainment have been rapidly adopting NVMe-oF to accelerate workloads and achieve the benefits of shared storage. They are typically deploying the technology with new scale-out applications or using it as a bridge from virtualized to containerized applications. Practical experience has led to many lessons learned about NVMe drive technology, “standard” OS drivers, network tuning. and the reality of software-defined vs. appliance deployment models. Understanding the technical details of real-world experience will help the community advance NVMe-oF adoption.

Paper Author: VR Satish, Co-Founder/CTO, Pavilion Data Systems

Author Bio: VR Satish is the Chief Technology Officer at Pavilion Data Systems, where he runs a geo-distributed engineering organization to deliver world-class enterprise-ready products. His emphasis is on developing rack-scale storage with local resiliency, supporting advanced data management services, and using merchant silicon wherever possible. His organization focuses on developing products for new applications such as MongoDB, Cassandra, and CouchBase. Before joining Pavilion Data, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Artiman Ventures and Chief Technology Officer for the Information & Availability Group at Symantec. His current areas of interest include distributed computing, information-centric storage architectures, and virtualization. Satish holds multiple patents in storage management, and earned his Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Florida.