SAN and Data Transport Technology Evaluation at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Growing data stockpiles and storage consolidation continue to be the trend. So does the need to provide secure yet unconstrained, high bandwidth access to such repositories by geographically distributed users. Conventional data management approaches, both at the local and wide area level, are viewed as potentially inadequate to meet these challenges. This paper explores methods deploying a new breed of Fibre Channel (FC) technology that leverages Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructures as the data transport mechanism, a step towards creating a “storage area network (SAN) grid”. These technologies include products using the FC Over IP (FCIP) and the Internet FC Protocol (iFCP) protocols. The effort draws upon earlier work that concentrated on standard FC and internet SCSI (iSCSI) technologies. In summary, the vendor offerings tested performed as expected and provided encouraging performance results. However, their operational readiness still needs to be understood and demonstrated. Installing and configuring the products was reminiscent of the early days of FC with driver and version compatibly issues surfacing once again. Maturity will take some time.
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