By Phil Carns
Publication Date: 2026-10-30 15:01:00
NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a robust, portable, and efficient data path between NVIDIA GPUs and storage targets to increase bandwidth, minimize latency, and reduce CPU and memory utilization across a broad range of platforms, application frameworks, and workload patterns.
Configuring NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage starts with understanding your environment. Which settings and storage paths are appropriate for your platform and workload? Extensive documentation describes how to configure and troubleshoot supported architectures and storage solutions, but you must navigate this information and optimize your deployment.
The gds-diag tool was developed by the GPUDirect Storage team to simplify optimization and configuration of GPUDirect Storage. gds-diag is a simple, open-source command-line utility that assesses environments, identifies problems, and suggests improvements to help you make the most of your GDS deployment.
It is also bundled with an optional agent skill that adds a natural-language interface and orchestration layer. The skill interprets your intent, selects and invokes the appropriate subcommands, and coordinates multi-step diagnostic workflows. Beyond command selection and routing, the skill extends gds-diag with model-guided reasoning. It can interpret diagnostic results,…