Virtualization Discussion #2
“In-band” (block appliances)…
- The flexibility of host-based volume management delivered in storage devices
…vs. “out-of-band” (metadata servers)
- Potentially: profound change in enterprise storage
- Secure protocols aren’t there yet
- A better way to look at it
- In-band: complex, heterogeneous data centers
- Out-of-band: best when combined with shared file system for integrated application scaling