Super helpful, thanks. What I mean is something akin to a single-node daemon with network capabilities. Something as basic as a memcached or redis type of interface to start.
Though I'm not super knowledgeable about it. I think Redfish/Swordfish are maybe meant for this sort of thing:
https://www.snia.org/forums/smi/swordfish
There's a video on NVMe and NVMe-oF management for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56VoD_1iGIs&list=PLH_ag5Km-Y...