Software-Defined Emulation Infrastructure for High Speed Storage

Abstract

NVMe, being a new I/O communication protocol, suffers from a lack of tools to evaluate storage solutions built on the standard. In this paper, we provide the design and analysis of a comprehensive, fully customizable emulation infrastructure that builds on the NVMe protocol. It provides a number of knobs that allow system architects to quickly evaluate performance implications of a wide variety of storage solutions while natively executing workloads.