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Windows Environments. By John Reed, SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum member, NetApp.
THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN: Ethernet is the de-facto IT fabric standard around the world. If market predictions, customer tendencies, or current purchasing patterns hold any weight, Ethernet’s success is set to continue into the future as well. Ethernet’s dominance should come as no surprise; with the ability to support many storage protocols (i.e. iSCSI, FCoE, NFS, SMB/CIFS) over the same wire, it is an easy choice to deploy, and helps ‘future proof’ against changing infrastructure requirements, workloads, and data transports.
The block vs. file debate Okay, Ethernet is great, but what about block versus file, and which protocol to use when? For starters, take a look at your workloads and data.
Data is like entropy - it always increases. If opening the newspaper and reading
Plus, File- and Object-based storage is outpacing overall storage growth. This poses a significant challenge in today’s environment: administrators are tasked with managing an exploding amount of data while their own headcount dwindles or remains the same.
countless headlines about datacenter expansion isn’t enough evidence, market research firm IDC predicts 4X data growth by 2017 in the File- and Object-Based Storage market, representing a five year 47.2% CAGR and 173 Exabytes of storage sold in 2017.1
How are they going to do it? I often ask customers to describe their ideal next generation datacenter 5 years from now. Sometimes I get the “clean lines, well-lit” answer. Interior design jokes aside, I’m looking for how they want their data,
1 Source: IDC WW File- and Object-Based Storage 2013-2017 Forecast.
applications, hypervisors, and management planes to work and behave together. From a storage administrator’s standpoint, the answer is a pervasive and consistent trend towards the goals of total automation, self-service, and self-provisioning. This trend is not only a matter of convenience, but also one of survival. It sounds difficult, but these goals are made easier with file-based storage.
Take a moment to reflect on your regular admin tasks. Will you still be mounting LUNs and dealing with HBA’s, WWN’s, or iSCSI targets in 5 years? Many of these tasks cannot be automated, and regular data movement means these operations are a roadblock to the dreamland we so desire. Most folks I speak with no longer have time for the tasks associated with managing traditional SAN arrays, and everyone is looking to streamline storage administration. How do we simplify while managing larger datasets?
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