From the course: Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage

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NVMeOF overview

NVMeOF overview

From the course: Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage

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NVMeOF overview

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- In this lecture, you'll learn about the latest block level access protocol on the block, which is NVMeOF or NVMe Over Fabrics. (techno music) Let's start off with a reminder with playing NVMe. Not NVMeOF. You saw this slide earlier in the storage media types lecture. So SAS and SATA were designed for HDDs. The connection from the controller to the disks can be bottlenecks when SSDs are used if you're using the older SAS or SATA architectures. So because of that, the new architecture of NVMe was designed. It's a newer technology which uses faster PCI express bus, and that allows you to unleash with fuel performance of your SSDs. NVMe and SAS and SATA are not compatible with each other, so you can fit SAS and SATA drives in the same drive bay, but the NVMe drives have got completely different connector, so you cannot fit an NVMe drive into a SAS bay, and you can't fit a SAS or SATA drive into a NVMe bay. So that's the reminder on NVMe. We also have NVMeOF, which a block access…

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