Automating Discovery for NVMe IP-based SANs

NVMe® IP-based SANs (including transports such as TCP, RoCE, and 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 the potential of the NVMe IP-based SAN, we first need to address the manual and error prone process that is currently used to establish connectivity between NVMe Hosts and NVM subsystems.  This process includes administrators explicitly configuring each Host to access the appropriate NVM subsystems in their environment. In addition, any time an NVM Subsystem interface is added or removed, a Host administrator may need to explicitly update the configuration of impacted hosts to reflect this change. 

Due to the decentralized nature of this configuration process, using it to manage connectivity for more than a few Host and NVM subsystem interfaces is impractical and adds complexity when deploying an NVMe IP-based SAN in environments that require a high-degrees of automation.

For these and other reasons, several companies have been collaborating on innovations that simplify and automate the discovery process used with NVMe IP-based SANs. This will be the topic of our live webcast on November 4, 2021 “NVMe-oF: Discovery Automation for IP-based SANs.”

During this session we will explain:

• The NVMe IP-based SAN discovery problem
• The types of network topologies that can support the automated discovery of NVMe-oF Discovery controllers
• Direct Discovery versus Centralized Discovery
• An overview of the discovery protocol

We hope you will join us. The experts working to address this limitation with NVME IP-based SANs will be on-hand to directly answer your questions on November 4^th. Register today.