NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) brings the following enterprise-class storage services to NVMe-oF: As your organization considers accelerating business-critical applications, VMware, Broadcom, and NetApp have partnered to create a complete server-to-fabric-to-storage solution that is easy to deploy. Most enterprises already entrust their mission-critical applications to FC SANs because of their consistent performance, reliability, and resilience. The NVMe-oF architecture supports many hosts connected to multiple targets through multiple switches.
The NVMe/NVMe-oF protocol provides very high throughput, low CPU utilization, and ultralow latency, all of which required creating a lightweight NVMe stack that is parallel to SCSI, as well as a redesign of drivers. It was designed to support many transport protocols, including FC, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), InfiniBand, and TCP. The NVMe-oF standard was created to extend the benefits of NVMe to shared storage. NVMe supports up to 64,000 queues and up to 64,000 commands per queue, which makes it more efficient than the existing SCSI-based protocols such as SAS and SATA. NVMe has become the industry-standard interface for PCIe SSDs, with a streamlined protocol and command set and with fewer clock cycles per I/O operation. Getting value and insights quickly and reliably from a range of mixed-workload environments can differentiate organizations and accelerate efficiency.Įnter NVMe (NVM Express), a new protocol for accessing high-speed storage media that offers many advantages over legacy protocols. Because the performance of these applications is tightly linked to time to value and to stakeholder satisfaction, it’s critical that they operate at the highest levels of efficiency. Increasingly, organizations are looking for further ways to improve the speed and responsiveness of the applications that control their key operations. In the first phase of storage modernization, administrators embraced flash storage to accelerate business-critical applications. Highly optimized storage solutions have become a key piece in the digital transformation puzzle. NVMe over Fabrics solutions based on Fibre Channel (FC) deliver the next level of performance required by traditional and real-time applications for various use cases such as AI, machine learning, and real-time analytics. One key feature available with vSphere 7.0 is NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) support.īroadcom, NetApp, and VMware have a long history of developing infrastructure technologies that modernize data centers. The new release supports many new features that can facilitate transformation of modern data centers.
General availability (GA) of VMware vSphere 7.0 is a major milestone for VMware. Power of 3: NetApp, VMware, and Broadcom Redefining Enterprise IT ArchitectureĬo-authors: Naveen Krishnamurthy from VMware, Jayamohan Kallickal from Broadcom