Paper Title: Building a Better Solution with Native NVMe-oF SSDs

Paper Abstract: The introduction of NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) has improved many storage capabilities such as better storage utilization while at the same time maintaining many of the performance advantages of locally connected NVMe SSDs. With these capabilities NVMe-oF also allows for the disaggregation and independent scaling of compute and storage resources. While providing these advantages the present controller solutions still have some cost, performance, and scalability limitations. One opportunity to improve on the present limitations is through the use of Native NVMe-oF SSDs. NVMe-oF SSDs have the ability to significantly improve cost, performance, and scalability to provide overall better TCO over many existing solutions. This discussion will give a brief summary of those advantages.

Paper Author: John Kloeppner, Principal Engineer / HW Architect, NetApp

Author Bio: John has been with NetApp since 2011 and is responsible for the architecture and development of NetApp All Flash Arrays and Hybrid platforms. He has been in the Storage industry for more than 30 years. Prior to NetApp, John was with LSI, Symbios Logic, AT&T, and NCR. John holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the National Technological University.