NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs

The NVM Express (NVMe) specifications have been updated, gaining enhancements such as support for post-quantum cryptography, and SSD virtualization and live migration to better support virtualized environments. Announced by the NVM Express consortium, all 11 of the suite of NVMe specs have been updated with new features and …

[james 68]

Old man whines into the abyss

Might even be useful for the home tinkerer I suppose.... IF the bloody things ever become affordable again.

[ChoHag]

Have they reinvented disc partitioning and called it clever because they can set its name?

[Tom Chiverton 1]

I think its RAID they've reinvented?

[Bebu sa Ware]

"Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection"

Abstracting the naming of the resource from its implementation is arguably adding a level of indirection.

The exception to this postulate is of course: "…except for the problem of too many levels of indirection."

I am guessing this allows storage to be migrated transparently without the need for the virtual machines using the resource to be aware of the migration. So the main benefit seems to be the decoupling of the two which could simplify the management of both.