Paper Title: Diving in: Managing NVMe and NVMe-oF in the Enterprise

Paper Abstract: The enterprise storage market is rapidly expanding to include NVMe and NVMe-oF products pervasively. This provides a challenge: how do you manage these as part of your enterprise datacenter? As the NVM Express family of specifications continue to develop, the corresponding Swordfish management capabilities are also evolving: the SNIA Swordfish specification has expanded to include full NVMe and NVMe-oF enablement and alignment across DMTF, NVMe, and SNIA for NVMe and NVMe-oF use cases. In conjunction with Redfish management of servers, Swordfish's capabilities to manage NVMe and NVMe-oF devices in the enterprise provide a seamless management ecosystem. Dive in and catch up on the latest developments of the SNIA Swordfish specification: - Expanded support for NVMe and NVMe-oF Devices - Expanded Management of Storage Fabrics This presentation provides an update on the latest NVMe-oF configuration and provisioning capabilities available through Swordfish, and an overview of the most recent work adding detailed implementation requirements for specific configurations, ensuring NVMe and NVMe-oF environments can be represented entirely in Swordfish and Redfish environments.

Paper Author: Richelle Ahlvers, Storage Technology Enablement Architect, Intel

Author Bio: Richelle Ahlvers is a Storage Technology Enablement Architect at Intel, where she promotes and drives enablement of new technologies and standards strategies. Richelle has spent over 25 years in Enterprise Storage R&D teams in a variety of technical roles, enabling new technology ecosystems, leading the architecture, design and development of storage array software, storage management software user experience projects including mobility, developing new storage industry categories including SAN management, storage grid and cloud, and storage technology portfolio solutions. Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives with SNIA and DMTF for many years. She serves on the SNIA Board of Directors, the Chair of the Storage Management Initiative, and has led the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API from the groups inception; she is the alliance liaison between SNIA and DMTF, as well as the alliance liaison for OFA, OCP, and the SODA Foundation. She has also served as the SNIA Technical Council Chair and been engaged across a breadth of technologies ranging from storage management, to solid state storage, cloud, and green storage.