FCIA: International Committee on Information Technology Standards Published FC-NVMe-2 Standard Developed by T11 Technical Committee.

The FC Industry Association (FCIA) announced the International Committee on Information Technology Standards (INCITS) has published the FC-NVMe-2 standard developed by the T11 Technical Committee.

FC-NVMe-2 enhancements include Sequence Level Error Recovery (SLER), increasing the speed at which bit errors are detected and recovered during data transmission.

“The FC-NVMe-2 standard is focused on allowing bit errors to be detected and recovered at the transport layer before the protocol layer knows anything is amiss,” said Mark Jones, president, FCIA, and director, technical marketing, Broadcom Inc. “As link speeds continue to increase to meet the growing volumes of data, detecting errors in microseconds with little or no impact on storage performance becomes increasingly important.“

FC continues to evolve in lockstep with the storage-networking requirements of both traditional application environments and newer workloads associated with technologies such as AI, ML, and big data analytics. Market analyst and research firm Quillin Research LLC estimates by the end of 2020 over 142 million FC ports will have shipped, and 37 million FC ports are in use today.

“FC does a great job of delivering data reliably whether the data packets are SCSI or NVMe,” said Casey Quillin, principal analyst, Quillin Research. “The SLER feature in FC-NVMe-2 will result in better error handling and recovery, building a stronger foundation with even more reliability for NVMe oF.”

Resource:
FC-NVMe-2 and other educational content focused on FC basics or expert courses, visit FCIA’s YouTube channel or browse the organization’s library of webcasts.

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