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NVM Express, Inc. Debuts NVMe Over Fabrics Compliance Testing at Plugfest #8
NVM
Express, Inc., the organization that developed the NVM Express
(NVMe™) and NVMe Management Interface (NVMe-MI™) specifications for
accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) on a PCI (News - Alert) Express (PCIe®) bus as well
as over Fabrics, hosted its eighth NVMe
Plugfest at the University
of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL (News - Alert)) in Durham,
N.H. during the week of October 30-November 2. The event offered the
first official NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) compliance and
interoperability transport layer testing for RoCE, Remote Direct Memory
Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet, and the Fibre Channel.
The testing performed by the UNH-IOL, an independent testing provider of
standards conformance solutions and multi-vendor interoperability,
generated 14 new certified products for the base NVMe
Integrators List and one for the NVMe-MI
Integrators List. Eight inaugural products were also approved for
the newly aunched NVMe-oF
Integrators List, which accepts RoCE initiators and targets,
Ethernet switches, as well as Fibre Channel initiator, targets and
switches, and software.
"Since 2013, the UNH-IOL has certified over 112 NVMe-based products at
the NVM Express Plugfests," David Woolf, senior engineer, Datacenter
Technologies at the UNH-IOL, said. "By continuing to prioritize
specification compliance and interoperability testing, companies can
ensure faster time to market and seamless interactions with other
devices NVMe-based solutions."
Attendance at the NVMe Plugfest included 63 engineers from 19 different
companies focused in enterprise, client, cloud storage and test
equipment manufacturing. Participating NVM Express member companies
included Broadcom, Brocade, Cavium, Cisco, Intel, Lite-On, Mellanox,
Microsemi, Oakgate, SANBlaze (News - Alert), Seagate, SerialTek, SK Hynix, Starblaze,
Teledyne-LeCroy, Via Technologies, Viavi, Toshiba and Western Digital.
"The growth and success of NVMe Plugfests demonstrate maturing NVM
Express technology and a readiness for Fabrics," Ryan Holmquist, Chair
of the NVMe Interoperability and Compliance Committee (ICC), said. "Our
testing events have expanded as existing standards evolve, offering a
diverse and multiplying set of transports to test NVMe technologies-from
PCIe architecture to over SAN, from ROCE or Fibre Channel. Beyond
technology growth, the Plugfests foster a collaborative environment for
device analyzer, test equipment manufacturers and industry experts to
discuss issues and exchange ideas."
The next NVMe
Plugfest will be held in spring 2018 at the UNH-IOL in Durham, N.H.
About NVM Express, Inc.
With more than 100 members, NVM Express, Inc. is a non-profit
organization focused on enabling broad ecosystem adoption of high
performance and low latency non-volatile memory (NVM) storage through a
standards-based approach. The organization offers an open collection of
NVM Express (NVMe™) specifications and information to fully expose the
benefits of non-volatile memory in all types of computing environments
from mobile to data center. NVMe-based specifications are designed from
the ground up to deliver high bandwidth and low latency storage access
for current and future NVM technologies. For more information, visit http://www.nvmexpress.org.
The NVM Express Promoter Group is comprised of the following member
companies: Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Intel, Micron, Microsemi,
Microsoft, NetApp, Oracle, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba (News - Alert), and Western
Digital.
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