Detecting, Troubleshooting, and Preventing Congestion in Storage Networks

Introduction

Congestion is perhaps the most critical problem in storage networks around the world. Over the years, we have worked with thousands of users to help them in detecting, troubleshooting, and preventing congestion in storage networks. Our common observation is that most users lack a thorough understanding of this subject, and honestly, there is not much educational content that explains this subject practically. On one end, application developers are assuming unlimited access to storage, and the underlying infrastructure details are less relevant to them. On the other end are storage infrastructure teams that handle storage management and allocation. In between, the network teams deal with connectivity with limited visibility in the ...