Fully explore the application of storage routing technology in Enterprises

What is storage routing technology? What changes can storage routing technology bring to enterprises? The following is a comprehensive explanation of this problem. technology is the core of e-commerce, and it meets the two challenges facing enterprises: process explosive growth of data and make it available to employees, customers, and business partners around the world. E-commerce requires and generates massive data, and these extended massive information must use storage routing technology and management.

The Storage Router technology helps enterprises cope with these challenges. SAN is the most promising means to meet the rapidly growing enterprise storage needs, while the Storage Router technology makes it easier to build and manage SAN. As SAN routers appear in the network environment, IT personnel can use existing knowledge to easily build a storage network.

The convergence of networks and storage tools has recently experienced interesting changes. This is mainly focused on the debate between low-cost NAS and expensive high-performance SAN. IT administrators who run key business applications in enterprises want to use the SAN technology, but find it difficult to build a storage network that covers a wide range of data networks and is easy to manage. A Storage Router is essentially a device that enables users to connect to and exchange storage environments on a standard data network. It may be the best storage technology that has emerged since the launch of RAID. In fact, many new devices in this field support connections to fiber channel switches and SCSI devices on one end, such as disk arrays and tape libraries, and provide Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on the other end.

Users may ignore the important point: the Storage Router technology is not used to directly connect devices to the LAN or enterprise backbone network, it is used to build an independent network infrastructure for the storage network. Network vendors and storage vendors such as Brocade, EMC, Cisco, and other vendors will focus on using existing network technologies to achieve rapid return on technical investment.

The current high-end network technology can even provide a broad expansion space for the most intensive storage applications. 10 Gbit/s Ethernet still takes several years to be widely used, and manufacturers urgently need to solve the needs of high-speed solutions. A storage network may be a key application driving the development of Gigabit Ethernet and faster devices in the future. Cisco plays a leading role in developing storage routing technology and iSCSIInternet SCSI protocol. More specifically, iSCSI is a block-oriented technology that allows SCSI to transmit data using IP packets. As Cisco entered the network field and gained some practical experience, this technology is ready for prime time debut, despite some difficulties.

Due to the convergence of standards and technologies, the storage network market is one of the few highlights of the currently less prosperous network industry. Previous SAN connection efforts involved encapsulation of Fiber Channel and SCSI data in the IP package) were not successful, partly because the performance did not meet the requirements, it is also because Fiber Channel devices are traditionally configured as a series of loops rather than a real network. Currently, iSCSI and another similar technology, iFCPInternet, are leveraging the development and use of the SCSI protocol, this allows the application of storage routing technology to go beyond the limitations of the existing fiber channel and SCSI technology.