Red Hat Enterprise Linux shipped their first commercially supported parallel NFS client on February 21^st. The Red Hat ecosystem can deploy pNFS with the confidence of engineering, test, and long-term support of the industry standard protocol.

Red Hat Engineering has been working with the upstream community and several SNIA ESF member companies to backport code and test interoperability with RHEL6. This release supports all IO functions in pNFS, including Direct IO. Direct IO support is required for KVM virtualization, as well as to support the leading databases. Shared workloads and Big Data have performance and capacity requirements … Read the rest

Building an industry standard is a series of incremental steps – from the original concept through ratification, followed by education and promotion, and ultimately to the development of an ecosystem of solutions. For a number of years the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) has been successfully advocating and promoting the NFSv4.1 standard and pNFS extensions.

Today, we welcome the open-pnfs.org community in its goal of extending the work of the SNIA ESF in promoting pNFS and NFSv4.1. Open-pNFS adds to the progression from standard to solution, by focusing and highlighting the commercial products coming to market and the maturation of … Read the rest