Intel Corporation

Sk Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp.

Kapil Karkra

Piotr Wysocki

Sanjeev N Trika

Mariusz Barczak

Anand S Ramalingam

Slawomir Ptak

Michal Wysoczanski

Michael Mesnier

Andrzej Jakowski

Marcin Pioch

Steven C Miller

Shirish Dnyaneshware Bahirat

Jonathan M Hughes

James R Harris

Benjamin Walker

Bishwajit Dutta

Brennan A Watt

Benjamin Boyer

Wojciech Malikowski

Maksymilian Kunt

Rajib Ghosal

Dhruvil Shah

James Guilmart

An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may comprise a processor, memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and circuitry communicatively coupled to the processor and the memory to determine a group of available types of persistent memory devices and a set of characteristics associated with each type of persistent memory device of the group of available types of persistent memory devices, determine of a set of requirements for a storage system, and determine a deployment configuration for the storage system with a lowest storage acquisition cost based on the group of available types of persistent memory devices, the sets of characteristics, and the set of requirements. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Multiple tier storage deployment management engine

High performance parity-based Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) on Zoned Namespaces Solid State Drives (SSD)s with support for high queue depth write Input Output (IO) and Zone Append command is provided in a host system. The host system includes a stripe mapping table to store mappings between parity strips and data strips in stripes on the RAID member SSDs. The host system also includes a Logical to Physical (L2P) table to store data block addresses returned by the Zone Append command.

Method and apparatus to improve performance of a redundant array of independent disks that includes zoned namespaces drives

A host Flash Translation Layer (FTL) synchronizes host FTL operations with the drive FTL operations to reduce write amplification and over-provisioning. Embodiments of FTL synchronization map, at the host FTL software (SW) stack level, logical bands in which data is managed, referred to as host bands, to the physical bands on a drive where data is stored. The host FTL tracks validity levels of data managed in host bands to determine validity levels of data stored in corresponding physical bands, and optimizes defragmentation operations (such as garbage collection processes and trim operations) applied by the host FTL SW stack to the physical bands based on the tracked validity levels.

Reducing write amplification and over-provisioning using flash translation layer synchronization

A storage system includes a NAND storage media and a nonvolatile storage media as a write buffer for the NAND storage media. The write buffer is partitioned, where the partitions are to buffer write data based on a classification of a received write request. Write requests are placed in the write buffer partition with other write requests of the same classification. The partitions have a size at least equal to the size of an erase unit of the NAND storage media. The write buffer flushes a partition once it has an amount of write data equal to the size of the erase unit.

NAND-based storage device with partitioned nonvolatile write buffer

An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to maintain a respective lookup table for each of two or more persistent storage devices in a persistent memory outside of the two or more persistent storage devices with a first indirection granularity that is smaller than a second indirection granularity of each of the two or more persistent storage devices, buffer write requests to the two or more persistent storage devices in the persistent memory in accordance with the respective lookup tables, and perform a sequential write from the persistent memory to a particular device of the two or more persistent storage devices when a portion of the buffer that corresponds to the particular device has an amount of data to write that corresponds to the second indirection granularity. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Controller and persistent memory shared between multiple storage devices

An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to manage access to a storage system that includes a first persistent storage device and a second persistent storage device, capture input/output telemetry for a workload on the storage system, determine one or more write reduction factors and one or more write invalidation factors for the workload based on the captured input/output telemetry, and allocate storage for the workload between the first persistent storage device and the second persistent storage device based on the one or more write reduction factors and the one or more write invalidation factors. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Endurance aware data placement in storage system with multiple types of media

An embodiment of a semiconductor apparatus may include technology to selectively determine a set of data for background refresh based at least in part on host-provided information, and refresh the determined set of data on a persistent storage media as a background operation. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Selective background data refresh for SSDs

Techniques to facilitate an out-of-band (OOB) management in a virtualization environment include examples of assigning an endpoint identifier to a domain mapped to physical memory addresses of one or more storage devices coupled with a computing platform. The domain may enable software or a device driver executed by a virtual machine (VM) to access, manage or control at least a portion of the one or more storage devices. Examples also include receiving or forwarding messages through an OOB communication link coupled with the computing platform to a management entity to facilitate OOB management of the software or the device driver executed by the VM.

Techniques to facilitate out of band management in a virtualization environment

A system including a storage drive and a semiconductor apparatus coupled to the storage drive, is provided. The semiconductor apparatus may include one or more substrates and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic coupled to the one or more substrates to: initiate managing resources of the storage drive and, if the storage drive loses capacity, determine an amount of capacity loss, create a reserved file that is associated with logical memory space in a file system, based on the amount of the capacity loss, and erase at least a portion of the reserved file so that logical memory space associated with an un-erased portion of the reserved file is usable by the storage drive.

Technology to manage capacity loss in storage drives

An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to determine a stream classification for an access request to a persistent storage media, and assign the access request to a stream based on the stream classification. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Stream classification based on logical regions

According to various aspects, a storage system is provided, the storage system including a multiplicity of storage devices, and one or more processors configured to store user data on the multiplicity of storage devices, the stored user data being distributed among the multiplicity of storage devices together with redundancy data and with log data; generate a classification associated with the redundancy data and the log data to provide classified redundancy data and classified log data, and write the classified redundancy data and the classified log data on the respective storage device of the multiplicity of storage devices according to the classification associated therewith.

Storage system, computing system, and methods thereof

In one embodiment, a processor comprises a processing core; and a cache controller to send a plurality of write requests to a cache storage device to store cache lines of a stream block, the plurality of write requests each including a stream identifier of the stream block, wherein a capacity of the stream block is equal to a capacity of an erase block of the cache storage device and wherein the erase block is dedicated to storing cache lines of the stream block; determine to evict the stream block from the cache storage device based upon a determination that space is not available in the cache storage device to cache data received from a first storage device; and send a deallocation request to the cache storage device to deallocate all cache lines of the stream block to enable the cache storage device to erase the erase block.

Method and apparatus for erase block granularity eviction in host based caching

An apparatus includes a plurality of drives configured as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) and drive array controller logic to: calculate a first partial parity log (PPL) value for a first write operation that targets a first active stripe of the plurality of drives; store the first PPL value in a first pre-allocated portion of the plurality of drives that depends on a first number associated with the first active stripe; calculate a second PPL value for a second write operation that targets a second active stripe of the plurality of drives; and store the second PPL value in a second pre-allocated portion of the plurality of drives that depends on a second number associated with the second active stripe.

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Chandler, AZ, United States of America

Kapil Karkra