System and Method for Multiservice Input/Output

A method of sharing a plurality of persistent storage drives between a plurality of remote servers, comprising:

• forming a plurality of mappings in a storage transaction switch, wherein each mapping of the plurality of mappings correspond to an assignment of a storage space in one or more of the plurality of persistent storage drives to one or more of the plurality of remote servers;
• receiving a storage transaction at a first one of a plurality of logical storage endpoints associated with a first one of the plurality of remote servers;
• translating the received storage transaction using one or more mappings of the plurality of storage mappings;
• and
• transmitting the translated storage transaction from one of a plurality of downstream ports to one of the plurality of persistent storage drives.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions, that when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform a method of sharing a plurality of persistent storage drives between a plurality of remote servers using operations comprising:

• configuring, for each persistent storage drive of the plurality of persistent storage drives, a corresponding one of a plurality of downstream ports in a storage transaction switch;
• assigning at least one corresponding unique namespace and at least one corresponding non-overlapping memory address space to each persistent storage drive of the plurality of persistent storage drives;
• and
• associating one or more of the downstream ports with each of the plurality of logical storage endpoints.