Why Automated Discovery Changes the Game for NVMe/TCP
Dell News, December 19th, 2022
SmartFabric Storage Software (SFSS) removes the need for one-by-one configuration of each host interface to each storage interface.
Back in August, I wrote about how you can boost your workload performance with an NVMe IP SAN and how Dell Technologies helps simplify adoption by validating the components used within the NVMe/TCP ecosystem and providing automation with SmartFabric Storage Software. In this post, I want to focus on the automated discovery, our secret sauce to simplify the deployment.
When deploying NVMe/TCP, organizations often face a common challenge: managing connectivity between the host and storage array. This is due to the considerable amount of work involved, including manually configuring each host to point at the appropriate array-based Discovery Controller, monitoring the established connections and remediating any connectivity failures that may occur.