On Demand Webinars
We’re all accustomed to transferring money from one bank account to another; a credit to the payer becomes a debit to the payee. But that model uses a specific set of sophisticated techniques to accomplish what appears to be a simple transaction. We’re also aware of how today we can order goods online, or reserve an airline seat over the Internet. Or even simpler, we can update a photograph on Facebook. Can these applications use the same models, or are new techniques required? Click here for more information.
This second Webcast in the Storage Performance Benchmarking Series moves past the basics. With a focus on System Under Test (SUT), experts cover:
- Commonalities and differences between basic Block and File terminology
- Basic file components and the meaning of data workloads
- Main characteristics of various workloads and their respective dependencies, assumptions and environmental components
- The complexity of the technology benchmark interpretation
- The importance to System Under Test
Abstract: With NFSv4.1 implemented on several commercial NFS systems, along with a new Linux server and client, there is a continued growth of NFS usage in the IT industry. NFSv4.1, first introduced in 2010, meets many needs in the modern datacenter, but there are still technologies and advanced techniques that NFS developers want to deliver. This presentation covers a brief update of where we are with NFSv4.1 and more detail on the proposed features for NFSv4.2 that are currently being ratified at the IETF.
Security has been dramatically improved in NFS; and internationalization (I18N) support along with a global namespace means that there are plenty of new features to consider when moving to NFSv4.1. We’ll outline a simple plan for testing, implementing and migrating to NFSv4.1 from NFSv3, and point out resources and NFSv4.1 compliant servers and clients that are available today.
In this session, we’ll discuss specific items of interest around NFSv4.1 and pNFS, and look in more detail at what they offer the NFS user in a modern datacenter environment. Of specific interest and covered in more detail will be compound operations for efficient WAN usage, sessions and the elimination of NFSv3’s NLM (Network Lock Manager), layouts that support file, block and object, and trunking/pNFS for parallelization of IO operations.
This talk will appeal to Virtual Data Center Managers, Database Server administrators, and those that are seeking a fundamental understanding of NFSv4.1 with pNFS. It will cover the four key reasons to start working with NFSv4.1 today; explain the storage layouts for parallel NFS; NFSv4.1 Files, Blocks and T10 OSD Objects; and improvements in security. We’ll conclude the session with use cases for grid, database access, enterprise and desktop virtualization.