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Storage Developer Conference
by SNIA Technical Council
Every week the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) podcast presents important technical topics to the Storage Developer community. Each episode is hand selected by the SNIA Technical Council from the presentations at our annual Storage Developer Conference. The link to the slides is available in the show notes at www.snia.org/podcasts.
Episodes
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#146: Understanding Compute Express Link
Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) is an industry-supported cache-coherent interconnect for processors, memory expansion, and accelerators. Datacenter architectures are evolving to support the workloads of emerging applications in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that require a high-speed,...
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#145: The Future of Accessing Files Remotely from Linux: SMB3.1.1 Client Status Update
Improvements to the SMB3.1.1 client on Linux have continued at a rapid pace over the past year. These allow Linux to better access Samba server, as well as the Cloud (Azure), NAS appliances, Windows systems, Macs and an ever increasing number of embedded Linux devices including those using the…
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#144: Key Value Standardized
The NVMe Key Value (NVMe-KV) Command Set has been standardized as one of the new I/O Command Sets that NVMe Supports. Additionally, SNIA has standardized a Key Value API that works with the NVMe Key Value allows access to data on a storage device using a key rather than a block address. The…
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#143: Deep Compression at Inline Speed for All-Flash Array
The rapid improvement of overall $/Gbyte has driven the high performance All-Flash Array to be increasingly adopted in both enterprises and cloud datacenters. Besides the raw NAND density scaling with continued semiconductor process improvement, data reduction techniques have and will play a...
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#142: ZNS: Enabling in-place Updates and Transparent High Queue-Depths
Zoned Namespaces represent the first step towards the standardization of Open-Channel SSD concepts in NVMe. Specifically, ZNS brings the ability to implement data placement policies in the host, thus providing a mechanism to lower the write-amplification factor (WAF), (ii) lower NAND...
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#141: Unlocking the New Performance and QoS Capabilities of the Software-Enabled Flash API
The Software-Enabled Flash API gives unprecedented control to application architects and developers to redefine the way they use flash for their hyperscale applications, by fundamentally redefining the relationship between the host and solid-state storage. Dive deep into new Software-Enabled…
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#140: Introduction to libnvme
The NVM Express workgroup is introducing new features frequently, and the Linux kernel supporting these devices evolves with it. These ever moving targets create challenges when developing tools when new interfaces are created, or older ones change. This talk will provide information on some of...
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#139: Use Cases for NVMe-oF for Deep Learning Workloads and HCI Pooling
The efficiency, performance and choice in NVMe-oF is enabling some very unique and interesting use cases – from AI/ML to Hyperconverged Infrastructures. Artificial Intelligence workloads process massive amounts of data from structured and from unstructured sources. Today most deep learning...
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#138: NVMe 2.0 Specification Preview
NVMe is the fastest growing storage technology of the last decade and has succeeded in unifying client, hyperscale and enterprise applications into a common storage framework. NVMe has evolved from a being a disruptive technology to becoming a core element in storage architectures. In this…
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#137: Caching on PMEM: an Iterative Approach
With PMEM boasting a much higher density and DRAM-like performance, applying it to in-memory caching such as memcached seems like an obvious thing to try. Nonetheless, there are questions when it comes to new technology. Would it work for our use cases, in our environment? How much effort does it...
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#136: Introducing SDXI
Software-based memory-to-memory data movement is common, but takes valuable cycles away from application performance. At the same time, offload DMA engines are vendor-specific and may lack capabilities around virtualization and user-space access. This talk will focus on how SDXI(Smart Data...
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#135: SmartNICs and SmartSSDs, the Future of Smart Acceleration
Since the advent of the Smart Phone over a decade ago, we've seen several new "Smart" technologies, but few have had a significant impact on the data center until now. SmartNICs and SmartSSDs will change the landscape of the data center, but what comes next? This talk will summarize the state of...
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#134: Best Practices for OpenZFS L2ARC in the Era of NVMe
The ZFS L2ARC is now more than 10 years old. Over that time, a lot of secret incantations and tribal knowledge have been created by users, testers, developers, and the odd sales or marketing person. That collection of community wisdom informs the use and/or tuning of ZFS L2ARC for certain IO...
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#133: NVMe based Video and Storage solutions for Edged based Computational Storage
5G Wireless technology will bring vastly superior data rates to the edge of the network. However, with this increase in bandwidth will come applications that significantly increase overall network throughput. Video applications will likely explode as end users have large amounts of data bandwidth...
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#132: Emerging Scalable Storage Management Functionality
By now, you have a good understanding of SNIA Swordfish™ and how it extends the DMTF Redfish® specification to manage storage equipment and services. Attend this presentation to learn what’s new and how the specification has evolved since last year. The speaker will share the latest updates…
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#131: Redfish Ecosystem for Storage
DMTF's Redfish® is a standard API designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Both human readable and machine capable, Redfish leverages common Internet and web services standards to expose information directly to the…
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#130: SNIA Nonvolatile Memory Programming TWG
The SNIA NVMP TWG continues to make significant progress on defining the architecture for interfacing applications to PM. In this talk, we will focus on the important Remote Persistent Memory scenario, and how the NVMP TWG’s programming model applies. Application use of these interfaces, along…
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#129: So, You Want to Build a Storage Performance Testing Lab?
Whether you are a storage vendor, consumer, or developer, the performance of storage solutions affects you. Assessing the performance of large and complex storage solutions requires some level of performance testing lab, and there are many factors to consider. From network topology to load...
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#128: Surfing the World Wide File
SMB 3.1.1 is the state of the art for secure remote file access, but deploying it for clouds and mobile users can be very challenging; TCP/445 is often blocked, networks are often slow, and edge file servers are often feared. The Microsoft SMB3 team has now built the first implementation of SMB3...
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#127: Object Storage Workload Testing Tools
Attendees of this presentation will learn how to use several open source tools ( https://github.com/jharriga/ ) to evaluate object storage platforms. These tools provide automation and customer-based object storage workloads for activities such as filling a cluster, aging a cluster and running...
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#126: Introducing the SNIA Swordfish™ PowerShell Tool Kit and Windows Admin Center Integration
PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language that helps rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes. PowerShell is open-source, object-based and includes a rich expression parser and a fully developed scripting language…
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#125: Opening up Linux to the wider world
After a year of implementation progress of the The SMB3 .1.1 POSIX Extensions, a set of protocol extensions to allow for optimal Linux and Unix interoperability with NAS and Cloud file servers - what is the current status - what have we learned - what has changed in the protocol specification in...
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#124: Standardization for a Key-Value Interface underway at SNIA and NVM Express
NVMe KV (Key-Value) is an industry-wide proposal for a new command structure that allows access to data on an NVMe SSD controller using a “key” rather than a block address. Developed within the NVM Express technical working group, this Key Value command set provides a “key” to store a…
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#123: The NVRAM Standard
A variety of persistent memory technologies with DRAM-class performance, known as “memory class storage” or “MCS”, have appeared on the horizon. MCS will change the architecture of future computing systems. These technologies include carbon nanotube memory, phase change memory, magnetic spin...
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#122: 10 Million I/Ops From a Single Thread
One of the most common benchmarks in the storage industry is 4KiB random read I/O per second. Over the years, the industry first saw the publication of 1M I/Ops on a single box, then 1M I/Ops on a single thread (by SPDK). More recently, there have been publications outlining 10M I/Ops on a single...
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#121: Storage Applications in Blockchain
The applications using NVMe, SAS, SATA, USB based storage devices find a new use and one of them is mining for open source cryptocurrency such as Burst Coin. Using low power or solar power HDD’s, SSD and most importantly NVMe technology can improve turnaround latency and build blocks on a faster...
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#120: What Happens when Compute Meets Storage?
A growing trend in the market is capacity of data. This data growth is creating challenges within modern storage infrastructures and a new way to think of data is needed. The SNIA Computational Storage TWG was formed in October of 2018 to address this opportunity for the Storage industry to use...
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#119: Squeezing Compression into SPDK
Last year at SDC we reviewed the integration of crypto which made use of DPDK’s existing variety of drivers to usher in the capability. This year we are expanding our use of DPDK with the addition of a compression! This talk will outline the overall architecture of the compression module and...
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#118: Linux NVMe and Block Layer Status Update
This talks explains the exciting new features in the Linux NVMe driver and software target in the last two years, as well as the relevant block layer changes to support these features. Learning Objectives: 1) Learn about new Linux features; 2) Learn about new NVMe features; 3) Have fun!
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#117: Developments in LTO Tape Hardware and Software
LTO (Linear Tape Open) is an industry standard format for tape drives and media. To begin this talk we will give a brief overview of LTO tape: how data is recorded and accessed on tape, and some characteristics that make it very different from earlier forms of computer tape storage. We will then...
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#116: Persistent Memory Programming Made Easy with pmemkv
Introducing pmemkv, an open-source local key/value store for persistent memory based on PMDK. Written in C/C++, pmemkv provides optimized language bindings for Java, JavaScript, and Ruby. Pmemkv includes multiple storage engines that are tailored for different use-cases. Fast, flexible and...
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#115: Accelerating RocksDB with Eideticom’s NoLoad NVMe-based Computational Storage Processor
RocksDB, a high performance key-value database developed by Facebook, has proven effective in using the high data speeds made possible by Solid State Drives (SSDs). By leveraging the NVMe standard, Eideticom’s NoLoad® presents FPGA computational storage processors as NVMe namespaces to the...
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#114: NVM Express Specifications: Mastering Today’s Architecture and Preparing for Tomorrow’s
Since the first release of NVMe 1.0 in 2011, the NVMe family of specifications continue to expand to support current and future storage markets, increasing the amount of new features and functionality. With that natural, organic growth, however, comes additional complexity. In order to refocus on...
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#113: Latency is more than just a number
Over the years, SSD QoS has become more important to a variety of storage market segments. Traditional latency reporting methods do not always accurately depict QoS behaviors. This is problematic when attempting to understand what events lead to a specific QoS level and how to mitigate latency...
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#112: Computational Storage Architecture Development
With the onset of the Computational Storage TWG and growth of interest in the market for these new and emerging solutions, it is imperative to understand how to develop, deploy and scale these new technologies. This session will walk through the new definitions, how each can be deployed and show...
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#111: SMB3 Landscape and Directions
SMB3 has seen significant adoption as the storage protocol of choice for running private cloud deployments. With the recent advances in persistent memory technologies, we will take a look at how we can leverage the SMB3 protocol in conjunction with SMBDirect/RDMA to provide very low latency…
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#110: Datacenter Management of NVMe Drives
This talk describes work going on in three different organizations to enable scale out management of NVMe SSDs. The soon to be released NVME-MI 1.1 standard will allow management from host based agents as well as BMCs. This might be extended to allow support for Binary Encoded JSON (BEJ) in…
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#109: Real-world Performance Advantages of NVDIMM and NVMe
As NVDIMMs enter the realm of standard equipment on servers and storage arrays and NVMe is standard equipment for servers and consumer devices alike, what is the actual performance advantage of using NVDIMM over NVMe, or NVMe over SAS or SATA SSDs? First, we’ll review some purely synthetic...
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#108: SPDK NVMe: An In-depth Look at its Architecture and Design
The Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) open source project is gaining momentum in the storage industry for its drivers and libraries for building userspace, polled mode storage applications and appliances. The SPDK NVMe driver was SPDK’s first released building block and is its most...
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#107: The Long and Winding Road to Persistent Memories
Persistent Memory is getting a lot of attention. SNIA has released a programming standard, NVDIMM makers, with the help of JEDEC, have created standardized hardware to develop & test PM, and chip makers continue to promote upcoming devices, although few are currently available. In this talk two...
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#106: Container Attached Storage (CAS) with openEBS
Applying micro service patterns to storage giving each workload its own Container Attached Storage (CAS) system. This puts the DevOps persona within full control of the storage requirements and brings data agility to k8s persistent workloads. We will go over the concept and the implementation of...
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#105: Dual-Mode SSD Architecture for Next-Generation Hyperscale Data Centers
Increasing proliferation of Artificial Intelligence, E-commerce, Big Data and Cloud applications is leading to highly diversified workloads and use cases in hyperscale data centers, which poses new challenges to solid state storage in terms of performance, flexibility and TCO optimizations....
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#104: Introduction to Open-Channel/Denali Solid State Drives
The talk covers (i) the characteristics of open-channel SSD management, (ii) introduces the new open-channel/Denali interface, (iii) provides background on LightNVM, the Linux subsystem that we designed and implemented for open-channel SSD management, and at last, we show the effectiveness of...
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#103: PCI Express: What’s Next for Storage
PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 architecture has enabled Flash Storage to transition to high speed, low latency power efficient performance over the past few years. However, the hunger for additional performance in power constrained devices continues and PCI-SIG® continues its nearly three decade…
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#102: Achieving 10-Million IOPS from a single VM on Windows Hyper-V
Many server workloads, for example OLTP database workloads, require high I/O throughput and low latency. With the industry trend of moving high-end scale-up workloads to virtualization environment, it is essential for cloud providers and on-premises servers to achieve near native performance by...
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#101: Introduction to Persistent Memory Configuration and Analysis Tools
Have you heard of non-volatile/persistent memory but don’t know how to get started with this disruptive technology? Memory is the new Storage. Next generation storage tiered architectures are evolving with persistent memory and hardware delivering NVDIMMs. Are you a Linux or Windows application...
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#100: A Comparison of In-storage Processing Architectures and Technologies
In-situ processing, in-storage processing, smart SSD, computational storage… Many names to define the same concept: a closer integration of computing capabilities and data storage in order to reduce data movement leading to better performance and lower power consumption. This is a new trend in...
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#99: SNIA Nonvolatile Memory Programming TWG - Remote Persistent Memory
The SNIA NVMP Technical Workgroup (TWG) continues to make significant progress on defining the architecture for interfacing applications to PM. In this talk, we will focus on the important Remote Persistent Memory scenario, and how the NVMP TWG’s programming model applies. Application use of…
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#98: Rethinking Ceph Architecture for Disaggregation Using NVMe-over-Fabrics
Ceph protects data by making 2-3 copies of the same data but that means 2-3x more storage servers and related costs. It also means higher write latencies as data hops between OSD nodes. Customers are now starting to deploy Ceph using SSDs for high-performance workloads and for data lakes…
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#97: Delivering Scalable Distributed Block Storage using NVMe over Fabrics
NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) protocols provide a highly efficient access to flash storage inside a server and over the network respectively. Current generation of distributed storage software stacks use proprietary protocols which are sub-optimal to deliver end to end low latency.…
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Every week the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) podcast presents important technical topics to the Storage Developer community. Each episode is hand selected by the SNIA Technical Council from the presentations at our annual Storage Developer Conference. The link to the slides is available in the show notes at www.snia.org/podcasts.
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