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IOL INTERACT

IOL INTERACT™ software expedites and automates the testing of NVMe SSDs and NVMe-oF products.

What is the Zoned Namespace Specification?

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In mid-2020, the NVMe Organization released the first revision of the Zoned Namespace specification (ZNS). This new specification has received a lot of attention, with promises of longer living drives that achieve higher performance under certain conditions. Since then, a number of companies have published roadmaps that include products with ZNS support. In this article, we'll review the significance of this specification and what ZNS drives are good for.

First, this specification is significant because it brings a new...

Testing NVMe® Conformance Through Virtual Plugfest Events

By Owen O'Brien - Friday, February 12 2021

Here at the University of New Hampshire’s Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL), the collaborative efforts of Plugfests, also known as group test events, have been hosted and developed since the late 1980s. The lab’s dedicated space for these types of events holds up to 60 companies in a neutral, third party environment. Common among the UNH-IOL’s group testing efforts, are the multi-vendor Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe ® ) and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF ™) Plugfests which are held two times per year....

SSD Power and Performance Levels: The Latest Release of IOL INTERACT™

By Gerry Donahue - Monday, April 6 2020

Going into summer 2019, I was a full time software developer in the NVMe testing group at the UNH-IOL and focused primarily on test script development for the automated testing application, IOL INTERACT™ . IOL INTERACT™ is a software package used to automatically perform the NVMe Conformance Test plan, which can qualify products for the NVMe Integrators list. As a test script developer, I worked directly on with testing prototype NVMe drives, which gave me a hands on and...

Intro to IOL INTERACT-NVMe Test Software

By David Woolf - Thursday, October 31 2013

In recent years, UNH-IOL has expanded beyond just test services, and now offers several conformance test tools that members can use to replicate the UNH-IOL capability in their own labs. One example of this is the IOL INTERACT tool used for NVMe conformance testing. There are two versions of the IOL INTERACT tool, and we'll be discussing both of them.