NVM Express® is innovating to effectively and efficiently service today’s data-intensive storage demands. The NVMe open collection of standards reveal the scores of benefits of non-volatile memory in all types of computing environments from mobile to data centers. Enterprise IT, storage and hyperscale datacenters need robust management to deploy, monitor, maintain, and diagnose servers and solid-state drives (SSDs) to keep applications running with minimal downtime.
The NVMe™ Management Interface (NVMe-MI™) standard defines a command set and architecture for managing NVMe storage, making it possible to discover, monitor, configure, and update NVMe devices in multiple operating environments. NVMe-MI provides an industry standard way for management of NVMe devices in-band (through an operating system) and out-of-band (usually through a BMC, or baseboard management controller). The upcoming revision of the specification, NVMe-MI 1.1, is evolving to meet the growing management needs of the NVMe ecosystem.