FMS 2025: NVM Express Touches Down, NVMe Spec Updates, Product Demos and Beyond

2025 is turning into another banner year for NVM Express and we can’t wait to see you at our biggest event of the year: Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2025.

Taking place on August 5-7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, NVM Express, Inc. will be sharing  some exciting announcements on the latest updates to NVM Express (NVMe) technology. It’s sure to be another electrifying year for the organization.

FMS is the premier memory and storage event that highlights significant trends and innovations in memory and storage technologies, architectures and applications. NVMe technology goes hand in hand with FMS and we look forward to showcasing the latest NVMe feature updates and use cases during our sponsored speaker track.

NVM Express-sponsored track for FMS 2025:

• NVM Express Sponsored Session: NVMe State of the Union, Configurable Device Security and QoS – Wednesday, August 6 – 8:30 – 9:35 am PT, Ballroom D, First Floor

Presentations:

• NVMe Technology: The Command Set for High Bandwidth AI, Cloud and Enterprise Applications – Speaker: Frederick Knight, standards technologist, Kioxia – About the Presentation: NVMe technology has become the language of storage and is now synonymous with high-performance storage and with widespread adoption in client, cloud, enterprise and event AI applications. Although initially developed for direct-attached PCIe SSDs, NVMe architecture is now widely used in both direct-attached and fabric-attached applications. This presentation provides an overview of the NVMe standards roadmap and reviews the newest NVMe features like NVM Subsystem Migration, Quality of Service, Fabric Resiliency, Quality of Service and more. Finally, we will review how NVMe technology will support emerging applications like AI in additions to how it continues to support Cloud and Enterprise Applications.

• How Easy is it to Manage your NVM Subsystem’s Personality – Speakers: Andres Baez, software engineer, Solidigm and Festus Hategekimana, security architect, Solidigm – About the Presentation: The NVM Express working group has been working on finding solutions to allow NVM subsystems to have configurable personalities. This talk will give details on TP4163 Configurable Device Personality and how this new feature is going to add value to SKU reduction and secure specific NVM subsystem configurations for end customer engagements. OEMs and platform providers will be able to better manage inventories and prepare products for delivery in a more efficient way using this new NVMe capability. The talk will also cover how personalities may be protected from further changes by an owner unless the personality supports authentication, and the host is authorized to make changes.

• Unlocking QoS Potential – Optimizing SSD Performance for Emerging Standards – Speaker: Dan Helmick, principal architect for enterprise SSDs, Samsung Electronics – About the Presentation: Building on the momentum of Live Migration and Flexible Data Placement, NVM Express (NVMe) is ratifying TP4176 Quality of Service for PCIe Bandwidth and IOPS for a Controller. However, implementing this standard in real-world SSDs can be complex. This presentation will provide clarity on the standardized modes for QoS control, including key parameters and simplified control knobs. Through example use cases and scenarios, we will explore reasonable settings for meeting customer requirements, as well as situations where ‘best effort’ approaches may be necessary. This talk aims to initiate a conversation on intelligent QoS parameter setting on the host side, with a focus on achieving specific goals and exploring the potential for consistency across SSD vendors and generations.

• NVM Express General Session: NVMe Innovations in Windows, Verification of SSD Controller Designs, and NVMe Live Migration – Thursday, August 7 – 9:45 – 10:50 am PT, Ballroom C, First Floor

Presentations:

• NVMe Innovations in Windows – Speaker: Scott Lee, software engineer lead, Microsoft – About the Presentation: Share about recent and upcoming NVMe related innovations in Windows.

• Host Addressing of NVMe Subsystem Local Memory – Speaker: Jason Molgaard, principal storage solutions architect, Solidigm – About the Presentation: While a host has been able to address NVMe device memory using Controller Memory Buffer (CMB) and Persistent Memory Region (PMR), this memory has never been addressable by NVMe commands. NVM Express introduced the Subsystem Local Memory IO Command Set (SLM), which allowed NVMe device memory to be addressable by NVMe commands; however, this memory could not be addressed by the host using host memory addresses. A new technical proposal is being developed by NVM Express that would allow SLM to be assigned to a host memory address range. This presentation will describe the architecture of this new NVMe feature, and discuss the benefits and use cases that host addressable SLM enables.

• Pre-Migration Verification for NVMe SSDs: Ensuring Seamless Live Migration – Speaker: Prashant Dixit, senior engineering manager, Siemens – About the Presentation: The host-managed live migration allows maintenance without interrupting a workload, rebooting an instance, or modifying any instance’s properties like IP addresses, metadata or network settings. To ensure thorough verification and overcoming the challenges, solution must be agile to validate track and migration commands, suspend and resume, data transfers to and from different regions, controller data queues management, and memory scoreboarding across power cycles. We will discuss the important characteristics of the solution from planning to closure. We will explore how using common APIs, data structures, migration with existing/updating queues and data structures, utilizing UVM features like callbacks and analysis components will make the solution highly adaptable by keeping the high-level stimulus same. We will also delve into strategies for making the solution reusable for new features like NVM Subsystem Migration. We will see a case study on how these techniques, along with an exhaustive compliance test suite and efficient debug mechanism, helped our NVMe customers thoroughly verify the intricacies of live migration-enabled SSD designs and achieve a shorter time to market.

NVM Express Technology Demos – Visit Member Company Booths
During FMS 2025, many of industry leading member companies will be exhibiting live NVMe technology demos.