Chapter 1-19. Introduction to Congestion in Storage Networks

Q: What effects does NVMe over Fabrics have on network congestion?

All environments are different; hence a general answer is not possible. 所有的环境都是不同的，因此不可能给出一个笼统的答案。

The high amount of parallelism of NVMe may increase network utilization and traffic bursts. As a result, in general, network congestion may remain the same or increase with NVMe over Fabrics. NVMe 的高并行性可能会增加网络利用率和流量突发。因此，一般来说，NVMe over Fabrics 的网络拥塞情况可能会保持不变或加剧。

Network congestion may remain the same in those environments where applications were already getting the maximum storage performance and were not pushing the limits of the storage networks and the various layers within the end devices. 在应用程序已经获得最大存储性能、没有挑战存储网络和终端设备内各层极限的环境中，网络拥塞情况可能保持不变。

In contrast, network congestion may increase in those environments where the storage devices can read data quickly and send the response at the maximum rate of their links. This leads to increased network utilization resulting in congestion due to over-utilization. Such conditions have been commonly reported over the last many years with all-flash arrays, which did not use NVMe. As the usage of NVMe storage arrays increases, the instances and severity of congestion issues may increase further. 相反，在存储设备可以快速读取数据并以其链路的最大速率发送响应的环境中，网络拥塞可能会加剧。这会导致网络利用率增加，从而因过度利用而造成拥塞。在过去的许多年里，未使用 NVMe 的全闪存阵列经常出现这种情况。随着 NVMe 存储阵列使用率的提高，拥塞问题的发生率和严重程度可能会进一步增加。

Q: Someone told me that congestion in their networks vanished after upgrading to NVMe over Fabrics. Is that possible?

Possible but not necessarily expected. Even we know a few users w