Webinar: NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond - Everything You Need to Know
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The document discusses NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics, and the future of composable storage. It begins by explaining that NVMe is a protocol designed for solid state storage that improves upon SCSI. NVMe over Fabrics allows networked NVMe to provide near in-server performance for shared storage. This paves the way for composable storage, which uses orchestration to dynamically allocate independent storage resources according to application needs. Kaminario was presented as offering a converged NVMe and NVMe-over-Fabrics all-flash array that preserves full functionality while improving agility.
Webinar: NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond - Everything You Need to Know
- 1. NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond Everything You Need to Know Get Your NVMe Questions Answered ● What is NVMe? ● What is NVMe over Fabrics? ● What to expect from NVMe? ● When should you switch? ● How to go BEYOND NVMe? For audio playback and Q&A go to: http://bit.ly/NVMeFabric
- 2. Our Speakers George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US. Sundip Arora, Global Director of Product Marketing @Kaminario, is responsible for all aspects of product marketing and brings over 13 years of experience through a multitude of technology leadership roles. Prior to Kaminario, Sundip led regional product strategy, business planning and sales program execution at HPE’s storage division. Additionally, he’s held roles in solution architecture, pre-sales management and strategy consulting for both large corporations and growth-stage startups such as HP, Metatomix and Deloitte Consulting.
- 3. What is NVMe? ● NVMe Protocol is Designed for Solid State Storage ● What’s wrong with SCSI (SAS)? ○ Designed for HDD ● NVMe adds: ○ Deeper Queue Depth ○ Larger command set ○ PCIe based ○ Works with most modern servers
- 4. NVMe inside Storage Systems ● Today most storage systems use SAS flash SSDs ● Proprietary hardware ● Require conversion and re-architecting ● SDS Solutions ● Load on next generation server and ready to go ● NVMe Available NOW, not a future
- 5. Is NVMe Enough? ● Improving internal performance of the storage system will help but… ● The external connections remain largely unchanged ● Host to storage is either FC or IP and leverage SCSI ● Storage clusters (scale-out) are interconnected via IP (in most cases)
- 6. What is NVMe over Fabrics? ● A networked version of NVMe ● Available for both fibre channel and ethernet ● Will allow the host to connect without SCSI (near in-server performance) ● Will allow the storage clusters a more efficient communications path
- 7. Impact of NVMe over Fabrics ● Shared storage delivers performance and latency nearly the same as internal storage ● But with all the benefits (availability, protection, mobility) of a shared system ● Not 100% ready yet but getting close
- 8. The Evolution of NVMe over Fabrics ● Limited and controlled use cases at first ● Scale-out connectivity is a perfect use case (controllable, and there is a need) ● Host connectivity isn’t as big a need, yet. Provides time for the technology to mature
- 9. What does NVMe over Fabrics Enable? ● Composable Storage ● Storage systems that are “defined” on-the-fly ● Provides the ultimate in performance assurance ● Provides the ultimate in efficient resource utilization ● Storage MESH ● Eventually storage becomes a Mesh of controllers and capacity that are dynamically allocated as needed
- 10. Composable Storage Use Cases ● Service Providers ● Scale-out storage with efficient resource utilization ● Enterprises ● Quality of Service for mission critical applications ● HPC ● Performance and latency that rivals complex internal storage architectures
- 11. Introducing K2.N Converged NVMe and NVMe-oF AFA ▪ Fully converged NVMe backend ▪ Optional front-end NVMe connectivity ▪ Preserves full VisionOS ▪ Even more agile than K2’s scale-up-and-out Kaminario VisionOSTM Core SW Architecture & Data Services Framework Kaminario K2.N Kaminario Clarity™ (Cloud-based, Big Data Analytics, Predictive Intelligence, Support Portal, Customer Community) DataProtect DataManage Snap | Replication | Encryption GUI | CLI | RESTful API DataConnect OpenStack | Docker| KVSS |VMware | UCS DataShrink Dedupe | Compression | Zero Detect Kaminario K2 Gen6
- 12. Storage controller resources (c.nodes) disaggregated from storage NVMe media resources (m.nodes) > ▪ NVMe-oF interconnect delivers DAS performance for rackscale configurations ▪ Flexibility to optimize storage and compute ▪ Cost-efficient scalability model Kaminario Confidential Independently Scale Capacity and Compute
- 13. NVMe-based shared storage topology ▪ Fully converged NVMe over fabric back-end ▪ Node level granularity – c.nodes and m.nodes ▪ Powered by VisionOS with same set of dataservices at K2 ▪ Optional front-end connectivity to hosts - NVMeoF, iSCSI, Fibre Channel ▪ Performance is the sum of mixed controller types ▪ Distributed Software RAID
- 14. Extend NVMe-oF based shared storage topology to hosts ▪ Physically disaggregated architecture delivers more agile scalability model ▪ Node and Shelf granularity for maximum flexibility ▪ Logical proximity enables controller-based data services model
- 15. Orchestration and Automation enabled by converged NVMe networks will be the true disruptive innovation
- 16. Re-Architect for efficiency. Orchestrate for simplicity Array 1 Array 2 Array 3 Disaggregate Storage Compute from Storage Capacity ▪ Dynamically compose independent storage resources according to application need ▪ Respond to QoS controls with dynamic re-allocation of compute or capacity ▪ Efficient use of shared pool of networked resources ▪ Unique multi-tenancy model based on independent domains Dynamically Compose Virtual Private Arrays Orchestration Analytics Management
- 17. The Future of the Datacenter is ‘Composable Storage’
- 18. Rich Ecosystem of K2.N Launch Partners
- 19. Thank you! Storage Switzerland http://www.storageswiss.com [email protected] StorageSwiss on Twitter: http://twitter.com/storageswiss StorageSwiss on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss Kaminario http://kaminario.com Kaminario on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KaminarioFlash Kaminario on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kaminario/
- 20. NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond Everything You Need to Know For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at: http://bit.ly/NVMeFabric