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How does local NVMe drive access compare to accessing the same drive over an NVMe over Fabrics link? Zeta Storage Systems has compared the two access methods and found... not a lot of difference at all. Zeta’s Lee Chisnall, its CNO (Chief Nobody Officer – think storage product management and marketing) says: “I think that is …

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  1. abb2u

    WHat about latency?

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    1. Dave Filesystem
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      Latency was basically the same as native. So we did not show that in the charts.

      (I work for Zeta Systems).

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      1. G Mac
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        Can we get that even so please?

        That is, the minimum/average/median/maximum request times?

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  2. Paul Hargreaves

    > “I think that is what sysadmins really want to know: how many IOPS do I lose by running the NVMe devices over a network?”

    Or, maybe they really want to know: What business problems does running NVMe over blah blah solve?

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    1. Dave Filesystem
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      Hello Paul

      That would be a different article.

      This one only asks the performance question.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    I wonder how that compares to iSER, with the same hardware

    If the performance improvement over iSER is not dramatic, what's the point in this exercise?

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  4. Dave Filesystem

    Full Results

    Full results here:

    http://www.zeta.systems/blog/2016/10/06/NVMe-Native-vs-NVMe-Over-Fabrics/

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