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NVMe over FC is happening, and it's time to prepare
This article is part of the Storage issue of September 2018, Vol. 17, No. 6
Are you ready for the next wave of IT infrastructure? The Fibre Channel Industry Association recently published the industry's standard for nonvolatile memory express over FC. Part of the larger NVMe-over-Fabrics specification, NVMe over FC, also known as FC-NVMe, represents a critical next step in defining the future of the data center. NVMe technology has been around for a while now. Unlike more traditional storage interface protocols, such as SAS or SATA, NVMe extends the lower-latency performance benefits of memory-based storage media like flash storage to the application. Developed to operate over a PCI Express transport layer, NVMe technology has been predominately limited to internal NVMe-based server SSDs or within direct-attached storage. With the NVMe-over-FC standard, there's now an agreed upon methodology to use NVMe-based communication over a Fibre Channel SAN. This dramatically increases the accessibility of NVMe, improving the performance of FC SANs. FC-NVMe and existing FC SAN infrastructure FC-NVMe is an ...
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Examples of hypervisors and how they're supported in HCI products
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