This week, Industry Outlook asks David Woolf, Senior Engineer of Datacenter Technologies at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), about NVMe and NVMe-oF and their role in storage and the data center. David has developed dozens of industry-reviewed test procedures and implementations as part of the team that has built the UNH-IOL into a world-class center for interoperability and conformance testing. He has also helped to organize numerous industry interoperability test events at both at the UNH-IOL facility and off-site locations.
Storage Technologies News
UNH-IOL Offers NVMe-oF Testing, Software, List
January 8, 2018
The University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab is now offering NVMe-oF testing services and related resources. This leading facility, based in Durham, is an NBASE-T member.
NVMe-oF stands for Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics. This standard enables data centers to access flash and solid-state drives over Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks. That allows them to run applications using a much larger storage pool than is possible with NVMe alone.
Second Industry-Wide, Multi-Vendor Plugfest Focused on NVMeTM Over Fibre Channel Fabric Completed by Fibre Channel Industry Association
January 3, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS, December 13, 2017 – The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the completion of its second industry-wide multi-vendor plugfest focused on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe™) over Fibre Channel (FC) Fabric and the first validation of the newly completed INCITS T11 FCNVMe standard.
Toshiba Memory America’s Storage Node Software Obtains Industry-First NVMe-oF Certification
December 13, 2017
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the US-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, today announced that its storage node software, which enables low latency networked flash storage for cloud architectures, was the first to be certified by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). As the leading testing and certification lab for NVMe technology and software, the UNH-IOL thoroughly tested TMA’s software with RoCE NIC in the storage node at its NVMe Plugfest #8, held October 30 - November 2 in Durham, New Hampshire.
UNH-IOL Drives NVM Express (NVMe) Technology Forward for Storage Industry
December 13, 2017
DURHAM, N.H., December 13, 2017 – The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, announced the launch of its NVM Express over Fabrics (NVME-oF) testing services and the release of its NVMe-oF Integrators List.
The UNH-IOL Now Uses Teledyne LeCroy SierraNet™ Ethernet and Fibre Channel Analyzers for NVMe over Fabrics Analysis
October 31, 2017
Santa Clara, CA, October 31, 2017 – The University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) recently announced new test equipment being used in their NVMe over Fabrics interoperability and conformance testing services, Teledyne LeCroy’s SierraNet Ethernet and Fibre Channel analyzers. The UNH-IOL will also add the SierraNet T328 and M328 analyzers to their test bed for standard 25/50/100GE and 8/16/32 FC protocol analysis and jamming.
Teledyne LeCroy Announces PCI Express® 4.0 x8 Protocol Analyzer
October 10, 2017
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy Inc., the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, today announced a new PCI Express® (PCIe®) protocol analyzer for capturing, recording and analyzing PCIe 4.0 signals. Teledyne LeCroy's Summit™ T48 joins the Summit™ T416 as the second protocol analyzer to be released supporting the PCIe 4.0 specification. The new Summit™ T48 protocol analyzer supports up to 8 lanes for protocol analysis with specifications that are otherwise consistent with the Summit T416.
The UNH-IOL to Showcase NVM Express Fabrics Technology at Flash Memory Summit
August 1, 2017
Durham, N.H., August 1, 2017 -- The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, is proud to announce they will be showcased at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2017 from August 8-10, 2017 (booth #719) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. This two day event is considered to be the leading conference on non-volatile memory in storage design.
Seventh NVM Express Plugfest Ushers in Next Wave of NVMe and NVMe-MI Devices
July 31, 2017
WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NVM Express, Inc., the organization that developed the NVM Expre
Industry's First FC-NVMe Plugfest Demonstrates Fibre Channel as the Trusted Fabric for Transporting NVMe™ Natively in Today's Datacenters
June 1, 2017
MINNEAPOLIS, MN--(Marketwired - May 31, 2017) - Building upon last year's successful Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe™) over Fibre Channel (FC) Fabric (FC-NVMe) proof of concept, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the completion of the first Gen 6 32GFC plugfest solely focused on FC-NVMe.