FAIS spurs storage applications

摘要

A new generation of storage volume management and data-movement applications are moving from servers and storage subsystems into networks to enable centralized management and more-scalable storage-area network architectures. To achieve the required level of performance, fabric-based storage applications are split into hardware-accelerated functions (data path) and non-hardware-accelerated functions (control path). Hardware-accelerated functions are offloaded to intelligent SAN platforms such as switches or storage appliances. But the storage applications and intelligent SAN platforms use proprietary APIs, limiting migration between vendor platforms.