Category: NVMe
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Key Value Storage – A Talk with Bill Martin of the SNIA Technical Council
SNIA has a new specification in town – focused on key value storage. SNIA on Storage sat down with Bill Martin, Co-Chair of the SNIA Technical Council and Co-Chair of the SNIA Object Drive Technical Work Group, to understand why SNIA took on this project and what are the results.
SNIA On Storage (SOS): Bill, thanks for taking the time to chat with us. To get started, can you tell me what key value storage is and how it relates to the Technical Work charter that SNIA undertakes?
Bill Martin (BM): Key value storage is a new method of storing data when compared to the traditional block storage method. You store a “Value” related to a “key (address)”, with the ability to then look up the value in the future using the “key” of the associated object. Read More
Author of NVMe™/TCP Spec Answers Your Questions
900 people have already watched our SNIA Networking Storage Forum webcast, What NVMe/TCP Means for Networked Storage? where Sagi Grimberg, lead author of the NVMe/TCP specification, and J Metz, Board Member for SNIA, explained what NVMe/TCP is all about. If you haven’t seen the webcast yet, check it out on-demand.
Like any new technology, there’s no shortage of areas for potential confusion or questions. In this FAQ blog, we try to clear up both.
Q. Who is responsible for updating NVMe Host Driver?
A. We assume you are referring to the Linux host driver (independent OS software vendors are responsible for developing their own drivers). Like any device driver and/or subsystem in Linux, the responsibility of maintenance is on the maintainer(s) listed under the MAINTAINERS file. The responsibility of contributing is shared by all the community members.
Q. What is the realistic timeframe to see a commercially available NVME over TCP driver for targets? Is one year from now (2020) fair?
Read MoreInnovating File System Architectures with NVMe
It’s exciting to see the recent formation of the Solid State Drive Special Interest Group (SIG) here in the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative. After all, everyone appreciates the ability to totally geek out about the latest drive technology and software for file systems. Right? Hey, where’s everyone going? We have vacation pictures with the dog we stored that we want to show…
Solid state storage has long found its place with those seeking greater performance in systems, especially where smaller or more random block/file transfers are prevalent. Single-system opportunity with NVMe drives is broad, and pretty much unquestioned by those building systems for the modern IT environments. Cloud, likewise, has found use of the technology where single-node performance makes a broader deployment relevant. Read More