Systems and methods for enabling access to extensible storage devices over a network as local storage via nvme controller

A system to support remote storage virtualization, comprising:

• a plurality of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) virtual controllers running on a physical NVMe controller, wherein each of the NVMe virtual controllers is configured to:
• create and mapping one or more logical volumes in one or more non-volatile memory express (NVMe) namespaces to a plurality of remote storage devices accessible over a network;
• present the NVMe namespaces of the logical volumes to a virtual machine (VM) running on a host as if they were local storage volumes;
• receive a first instruction to perform a read/write operation on the logical volumes from the VM;
• convert the NVMe namespaces of the logical volumes in the first instruction to storage volumes of the remote storage devices in a second instruction according to a storage network protocol;
• present result and/or data of the read/write operation to the VM after the read/write operation has been performed on the storage volumes of the remote storage devices over the network using the second instruction.

A computer-implemented method to support remote storage virtualization, comprising:

• creating and mapping one or more logical volumes in one or more non-volatile memory express (NVMe) namespaces to a plurality of remote storage devices accessible over a network;
• presenting the NVMe namespaces of the logical volumes to one or more virtual machines (VMs) running on a host as if they were local storage volumes;
• receiving a first instruction to perform a read/write operation on the logical volumes from one of the VMs;
• converting the NVMe namespaces of the logical volumes in the first instruction to storage volumes of the remote storage devices in a second instruction according to a storage network protocol;
• receiving, processing, and presenting result and/or data of the read/write operation to the VM after the read/write operation has been performed on the storage volumes of the remote storage devices over the network using the second instruction.

A computer-implemented method to support remote storage virtualization, comprising:

• creating one or more logical volumes in one or more non-volatile memory express (NVMe) namespaces mapped to a plurality of remote storage devices accessible over a network via an NVMe virtual controller running on a physical NVMe controller;
• presenting the NVMe namespaces of the logical volumes to a virtual machine (VM) running on a host as local storage volumes;
• receiving a first instruction to perform a read/write operation on the logical volumes from the VM;
• converting the NVMe namespaces of the logical volumes in the first instruction to storage volumes of the remote storage devices in a second instruction according to a storage network protocol;
• presenting result and/or data of the read/write operation to the VM after the read/write operation has been performed on the storage volumes of the remote storage devices over the network using the second instruction.