Storage Networking World Convention
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This is a convention I went to from April 16th-19th, 2007.
Contents
Talks
IP Storage Protocols: iSCSI
John Hufferd, Brocade Inc.
- PDU - Protocol Data Unit
- TOE - TCP/IP Over Ethernet
- iSNS - Internet Storage Network Server
- iSCSI Boot
- Static
- Bios must support it
- May be an adapter
- DHCP
- More flexible
- PXE Boot
- Everything can be done in software
- Static
- Spoke with Todd Burkey of Xiotech, who works with storage communications over InfiniBand.
Storage Grid: Relevance and Overview
Abbot Schindler, Hewlett Packard
- FAN - File Area Network
PCI Express, Infiniband, and Storage
Ron Emerick, Sun Microsystems Paul Millard, Xyratex
- Fibrechannel over Ethernet
- PCIe - External connections
- PCIe IOV - IO Virtualization
The Infiniband Revolution
Full Title: The InfiniBand Revolution: Parallel Computing is Out-Screaming High-Performance Clusters are in
Lloyd Dickman, Qlogic
Open Fabrics Alliance - working to bring about single fabric
Check out compute cluster IB Storage - Direct connect IB to storage, thus bypassing IO servers
IB Optical transcievers - 100m Length
QSFP pluggable modules - next generation
FC latency - 20µsec
Look up things on ISER technology - There appears to be nothing covering it at this conference.
