Enhancing NVMe and NVMe-oF configuration and managability with SNIA Swordfish and DMTF Redfish to...

Enhancing NVMe and NVMe-oF configuration and managability with SNIA Swordfish and DMTF Redfish to enable scalable infrastructures

Rajalaxmi Angadi, Intel, Corp. Phil Cayton, Intel, Corp.; Richelle Ahlvers, Broadcom Inc.
Phil Cayton:
Phil Cayton is Senior Staff at Intel Corporation, with 25 years’ experience developing and researching non-volatile local and remote storage and fabrics technologies, particularly NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMe-MI, InfiniBand and iWARP architectures resulting in 25+ patents. Both Rajalaxmi and Phil have been heavily involved in development of schemas and mockups for SNIA swordfish in the Scalable Storage Management Technical Working group; they have authored multiple technical proposals and contributed to the NVM Express consortium
Rajalaxmi Angadi:
Rajalaxmi Angadi is a Senior Engineer at Intel Corporation, she has over 14+ years of industry experience, architecting, developing, performance analysis of storage systems & fabrics technologies including NVMe & NVMe-oF.
Richelle Ahlvers:
Richelle Ahlvers is Storage Management Software Architect at Broadcom Inc., where she defines storage management integrations, solutions, and standards strategies for the Data Center Storage Group and on the SNIA Board of Directors. Richelle has spent over 25 years in Enterprise Storage, leading the architecture, design and development of storage array and management software.
Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives such as SNIA, DMTF, and the EU’s StandICT initiative for many years. She is on the SNIA Board of Directors and leads the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management Specification

SNIA Swordfish is an extension of the DMTF Redfish specification to provide a unified approach for the management of storage and services in converged, hyperconverged, hyperscale, and cloud infrastructure environments. Swordfish uses a client-centric approach to develop the dynamic resource models as part of the specification, which describes client needs, management requirements, and use cases. NVMe-oF currently support fabric transports like RDMA (iWarp, RoCE, IB), TCP, and FC. NVMe / NVMe-oF currently lacks efficient remote configuration and provisioning management mechanisms to enable NVMe-oF scaling to large converged infrastructures – something Redfish and Swordfish can provide. The SNIA Swordfish specification is currently growing to include full NVMe and NVMe-oF enablement and alignment across DMTF, NVMe, and SNIA for NVMe and NVMe-oF use cases. SNIA members are contributing to specification development and helping to shape the ecosystem. This presentation will provide an overview of the work in progress to map these standards together to ensure NVMe and NVMe-oF environments can be represented entirely in Swordfish and Redfish environments; our goal is to raise awareness of this new activity, to solicit feedback, and encourage participation.