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NetApp Unveils Support for 10Gb Ethernet

Network Appliance has announced a 10Gb Ethernet support across the company’s high-end and mid-range NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) product lines. Both the FAS3000 and the FAS6000 platforms were '10Gb Ethernet ready' when they were announced.

"The availability of 10Gb Ethernet connectivity will benefit all of our IP-based storage solutions, NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI," said Rich Clifton, vice president and general manager of the Networked Storage business unit.

10Gb Ethernet-connected NetApp FAS storage systems are said to be suited for large-scale storage consolidation, with the capacity to simultaneously support SAN- and/or NAS-based applications and large numbers of hosts. The NetApp FAS systems support both IP SAN using iSCSI protocol as well as NAS using NFS and CIFS protocols. The combination of NetApp built-in performance optimisation, storage provisioning, backup and recovery capabilities, and data protection features enables customers to recover application data and provision storage, servers, and databases in minutes.

10Gb Ethernet maintains backward compatibility with previous versions by supporting all the network services that operate at Layer 2, 3, and higher of the OSI model, e.g., VLANs, spanning tree, MPLS, QoS, VoIP, security, etc. 10Gb Ethernet supports both optical and copper media through the 10GBASE-E, 10GBASE-L, 10GBASE-S, 10GBASE-CX4, and the emerging 10GBASE-T standards 10Gb Ethernet products have been available in the market since 2002. Initial products focused on switch-to-switch connectivity with 10-Gigabit ports for (director-class) Ethernet switches and on server connectivity with 10-Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards (NICs). The latest generation is said to provide much more affordable connectivity for storage and host environments.


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