The original compatibility programs created within OCCL in 2019 were focused on demonstrating the interoperability of all the elements necessary to deploy NVMe-oF solutions. The foundation was Ethernet and NVMe interoperability enabled in the IoL at University of New Hampshire. OCCL then added the capability to test NICs, switches, and storage enclosures as integral components of a functioning storage solution.
We now look more towards using these NVMe-oF connected systems to implement fully featured storage solutions, and measuring the performance achieved with them. We continue to rely upon UNH-IOL for protocol compliance and are constantly refining our best practices for configuring NIC, switch, and end point connections, but are expanding our analysis to better cover software accessing the storage and the underlying SSDs themselves.
We use the layers below to help describe how all of these components work together to create a disaggregated storage solution
