SNIA-SDC23-Flynn-Introducing-Need-NFS-eSSDs.pdf

1、1|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.Virtual ConferenceSeptember 28-29,2021The Case for NFS-eSSDsDavid Flynn,Hammerspace Founder&CEO2|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.Why Parallel NFS is Relevant Now More Than EverThe Current Reality:Data orchestration is an absolute requirement across silos,sites,&clouds.H

2、igh-performance requirements have gone mainstream.The world is moving to software-defined on commodity infrastructure.Linux is ubiquitous enables a sophisticated,standards-based,open-source client to come built-in(not third-party).Therefore:NFS 4.2 solves these problems.File access that bridges stor

3、age silos,sites&clouds.Parallel file system with no need to install third-party client&management tools.Avoids need to rewrite apps to use object storage.3|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.Unstructured Data Orchestration System in Action4|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.SSDCPUSATADRAM1RAIDCTRLPCIe2The RA

4、ID controller is the bottleneck and adds an additional serial data retransmission.CTRLGPU3Direct Attached Storage5|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.NVMePCIe1CTRLNVMe eliminates the RAID controllerCPUDRAMGPU2Direct Attached Storage-NVMe6|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.NVMePCIe1Block to flash address mapp

5、ingDENTRY to INODE mappingFile offset to block mappingCTRLGPU Direct eliminates the host CPU and memoryBut,what about with shared storage?DRAMCPUGPUDirect Attached Storage NVMe and GPU Direct7|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.PCIeNIC9GPUDRAMCPUNetworkXNetworkNetworkCPUPCIePCIeNICNICDRAMNVMePCIePCIeNICX

6、NetworkStorage SystemNFS312345678File offset to block mappingClientBlock to flash address mappingCPUDRAMDENTRY to INODE mappingCTRLThe storage back-end host(CPU and memory)is the first bottleneck.Network Attached Storage(e.g.NetApp,Isilon,Pure,Qumulo,Ceph)8|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.FabricXNetwo