Thanks to Remote Storage IO the storage disks can be represented in the operating system as block I/O devices over network (e.g. Ethernet or Infiniband). These devices can serve any I/O requests of the application (read, write, ioctl). While iSCSI or SCSI over FibreChannel convert all I/O requests into a platform-independent format both on the server and on the client, the RSIO does not need this intermediate step and transports the requests directly to the server. This does not only promise performance advantages, but also allows the server to implement a much more large amount of functions (I/O bandwidth regulation, atomic volume disconnect). Such approach allows to meet the client requirements in a more direct way.
New Type of the Network Block I/O Protocol
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