NVMeDirect Overview # NVMeDirect is a software framework that is used to directly access to a NVMe SSD from a user space application. In the existing system, applications should access to a storage through several software I/O stacks. {: .center-image width=“800px”} As the storage media is getting faster, overheads by the software stack takes larger portion of I/O time. Hence, this software I/O stack is being reduced as shown in the above figure.