Are you a control freak? Have you ever wondered what the difference was between a storage controller, a RAID controller, a PCIe Controller, or a metadata controller? What about an NVMe controller? Aren’t they all the same thing?
On May 15, 2018, the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum will tackle these questions and more in “Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask – Part Aqua: Storage Controllers.” In this live webcast, our experts will take an unusual step of focusing on a term that is used constantly, but often has different meanings. When you have a controller that manages hardware, there are very different requirements than a controller that manages an entire system-wide control plane. From the outside looking in, it may be easy to get confused. You can even have controllers managing other controllers!
In Part Aqua we’ll be revisiting some of the pieces we talked about in Part Chartreuse, where we covered the basics, but with a bit more focus on the variety we have to play with:
- What do we mean when we say “controller?”
- How are the systems managed differently?
- How are controllers used in various storage entities: drives, SSDs, storage networks, software-defined
- How do controller systems work, and what are the trade-offs?
- How do storage controllers protect against Spectre and Meltdown?
I hope you will register today and join us on May 15th to learn more about the workhorse behind your favorite storage systems.