Storage Performance over Fast Ethernet, Giga Ethernet, Giga Ethernet TOE and InfiniBand

The performance of network storage systems is often limited by overheads in the I/O path, such as memory copying, network access costs, and protocol overhead. As a result, I/O remains the bottleneck for high-performance data-intensive applications. This paper examines different communication transports and their effect on network storage system’s performance. To accomplish the proposed study, we have utilized a parallel network storage system and different communication transports like Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, TOE and IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB). The purpose of this work is to evaluate the performance of parallel storage systems over the aforementioned transport access protocols.