Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Dynamically controlled interrupt coalescing is performed by enabling interrupt coalescing when the queue depth of the submission queue is high and disabling interrupt coalescing when the queue depth of the submission queue is low to maintain a required quality of service for a solid state drive. The minimum number of completions in the completion queue to trigger an interrupt is modified based on the queue depth of the submission queue. The minimum number of completions is increased when there is an increase in the queue depth of the submission queue and decreased when there is a decrease in the queue depth of the submission queue.

Abstract: 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.