Red Hat Enterprise Linux shipped their first commercially supported parallel NFS client on February 21st. 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 …Read More

I’ve gotten some interesting feedback on my recent 10GBASE-T blog, “How is 10GBASE-T Being Adopted and Deployed.” It’s prompted us at the ESF to learn more about your 10BASE-T plans. Please let us know by taking our 3-question poll. I’ll share the results in a future blog post.

A challenge with traditional iSCSI deployments is the non-deterministic nature of Ethernet networks. When Ethernet networks only carried non-storage traffic, lost data packets where not a big issue as they would get retransmitted. However; as we layered storage traffic over Ethernet, lost data packets became a “no no” as storage traffic is not as forgiving …Read More