Paper Title: Managing Ethernet-Attached Drives Using SNIA Swordfish

Paper Abstract: NVMe-oF drives can support NVMe over ethernet, but how do you manage them? What are the challenges of managing multiple drives at scale? This presentation will show how Swordfish has developed a standard model for not only NVMe ethernet-attached drives, but also Ethernet-enabled enclosures (EBOFs), providing a scalable, standardized manageability solution. This solution covers not only the specification, but detailed profiles, that provide guidance for implementations including required and recommended properties. The profiles are now part of the Swordfish CTP program; ethernet attached drives can validate conformance to the specifications by participating. Learn about how all the pieces work together to provide an end-to-end solution for clients and vendors together.

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.