IBM unveils Hyperstore for faster remote data access using NVMe-oF in Storage Scale
Blocks&Files, Friday, June 21st, 2024
IBM is planning a 'Hyperstore' for Storage Scale to get data from remote drives faster using NVMe over Fabrics.
Storage Scale is the latest incarnation of IBM's venerable GPFS (General Parallel File System), which speeds file reads and writes by having file system nodes (servers) operate in parallel. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is a protocol effectively extending the PCIe bus and operating across TCP/IP, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Ethernet network links to provide direct block-level storage drive access to accessing servers.
IBM IT architect Frank Kraemer thinks that the ideas expressed by Tom Lyon in the 'NFS must die' article are 'pretty cool' and says: 'We have plans that go into a similar direction with using NVMe-oF for speed but we'll still keep the classic way of file system interface and Erasure Coding (GPFS Native Raid - GNR) for ease of use and safe operations.'