As native Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe®) share-storage arrays continue enhancing our ability to store and access more information faster across a much bigger network, customers of all sizes – enterprise, mid-market and SMBs – confront a common question: what is required to take advantage of this quantum leap forward in speed and capacity?
NVMe provides an efficient command set that is specific to memory-based storage, provides increased performance that is designed to run over PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0 bus architectures, and -- offering 64,000 command queues with 64,000 commands per queue -- can provide much more scalability than other storage protocols.
NVMe Storage Network Infrastructure
On the switching side, most 10/25/100GbE switches that have shipped in the past 2-3 years support data center bridging (DCB) and priority flow control (PFC), and can support the lossless Ethernet environment needed to support a low-latency, high-performance NVMe/RoCE fabric.
A few storage array vendors have released mid-range and enterprise class storage arrays that are NVMe-native. NetApp sells arrays that support both NVMe/RoCE and FC-NVMe, and are available today. Pure Storage offers NVMe arrays that support NVMe/RoCE, with plans to support FC-NVMe and NVMe/TCP in the future. In late 2019, Dell EMC introduced its PowerMax line of flash storage that supports FC-NVMe. This year and next, other storage vendors will be bringing arrays to market that will support both NVMe/RoCE and FC-NMVe. We expect storage arrays that support NVMe/TCP will become available in the same time frame.
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