# 🚀 NVMe 2.1 Specifications Published With New Capabilities

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**Tags:** cloud-storage\
**Created:** [August 7, 2024, 5:56am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/nvme-2-1-specifications-published-with-new-capabilities/288479 "2024-08-07T05:56:16Z")\
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**Summary:**

**1. Enhanced Storage Unification:** NVMe 2.1 specifications were published at Flash Memory Summit 2024, aiming to enhance storage unification across AI, cloud, client, and enterprise environments.

**2. Key Updates and Features:**

- **Live Migration:** Enables live migration of PCIe NVMe controllers between NVM subsystems.
- **Data Placement:** Introduces host-directed data placement for SSDs, ensuring backward compatibility.
- **Processing Offload:** Supports offloading some host processing tasks to NVMe storage devices.
- **Network Boot:** Adds a network boot mechanism for NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF).
- **Security and Management:** Includes support for TLS 1.3, host management of encryption keys, and dynamic creation of exported NVM subsystems from physical resources.

**3. Security Enhancements:** Supports centralized authentication verification, granular encryption with Key Per I/O, and post-sanitization media verification.

**Read more at:** [phoronix.com](https://phoronix.com)