Paper Title: Monitoring the Health of NVMe SSDs

Paper Abstract: NVMe technology was built from the ground up for SSDs, and the original NVMe specification included a standard SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) log that monitored errors, device health, and endurance. Many capabilities have been built into NVMe technology since, including enhance error reporting, logging, management, debug, and telemetry. These capabilities can be built into tools ranging from open source management tools to OEM management consoles to help support monitor the status and health of the SSD (like notifying users when an SSD failure occurs).

Paper Author: Jonmichael Hands, Product Marketing Manager, Intel

Author Bio: Jonmichael is a senior strategic planner in the Intel Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group (NSG). He is currently the product line manager for Intel's data center NVMe SSDs. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, in Golden CO, he started his career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays. He has been in the storage industry for a decade, and been involved in driving and developing storage industry standards. He is currently serving NVM Express, Inc. as the co-chair of the NVMe marketing workgroup.