Intro to Incast, Head of Line Blocking, and Congestion Management
For a long time, the architecture and best practices of storage networks have been relatively well-understood. Recently, however, advanced capabilities have been added to storage that could have broader impacts on networks than we think.
The three main storage network transports – Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and InfiniBand – all have mechanisms to handle increased traffic, but they are not all affected or implemented the same way. For instance, utilizing a protocol such as NVMe over Fabrics will offer very different methodologies for handling congestion avoidance, burst handling, and queue management when looking at one networking in comparison to another. Read More