Chapter 4
Storage Software
Abstract
A view of the current state of storage networking, different protocols, and connection schemes and how they differentiate in use case and operational behavior are discussed in this chapter. A brief history of each as it has evolved, use cases, strengths and weaknesses, etc. are discussed.
Keywords
Ceph; Compression; Deduplication; Encryption; Gluster; Key/data interface; NVMe; Open-source storage software; OpenStack; SCSI; Storage pool; Storage software; vSphere
Most of this book is about storage software and how it impacts complete solutions. Storage is evolving to a component-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware base with software delivering the secret sauce value-add. In this chapter, we look at the historical storage ...
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