以太网互连优于光纤通道,不仅适用于FC价格标签,而且由于易于管理和提供的功能.
主要关注以太网的原因如下:
> Flash:快速存储需要快速网络.
Modern Ethernet supports speeds of 100Gb/s per link, with latencies of
several microseconds, and combined with the hardware-accelerated iSER
block protocol, it’s perfect for supporting maximum performance on
non-volatile memory (NVM), whether today’s flash or tomorrow’s
next-gen solid state storage.
>现代以太网优于光纤通道
Today’s Ethernet runs at 25, 40, 50, or 100Gb/s speeds. Meanwhile,
Fibre Channel is still transitioning to 16Gb/s technology and thinking
about 32Gb/s in 2016, which is slower than what Ethernet was
supporting 3 years ago.
> iSER涡轮增压iSCSI
iSER adds RDMA support to iSCSI. This lets the network cards offload
the iSCSI protocol and network transport to the NIC, supporting even
higher performance and lower latency with low CPU utilization.