NVMe® IP-based SANs (including TCP, RoCE, iWARP) have the potential to provide significant benefits in application environments ranging from the Edge to the Data Center. However, before we can fully unlock NVMe IP-based SAN’s potential, we first need to overcome the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) discovery problem. This discovery problem, specific to IP based fabrics, can result in the need for Host administrators to explicitly configure each Host to access each of the NVM subsystems in their environment.

The enterprise storage market is rapidly expanding to include NVMe® and NVMe-oF products pervasively. This presents the challenge: how do you manage these as part of your enterprise data center?

As the NVM Express family of specifications continue to develop, the corresponding Swordfish management capabilities are also evolving. The SNIA Swordfish® management bundle (including the specification, schema, documentation, and more) has expanded to include full NVMe and NVMe-oF technology enablement and alignment across DMTF, NVMe and SNIA for NVMe and NVMe-oF technology use cases.