SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Abstract
This session features leading pNFS developers describing ways in which pNFS is adapting to meet new challenges in distributed storage. New features are under discussion by the IETF NFS Working Group and new implementation platforms are emerging as pNFS adapts to market adoption. Some of these include: * Metadata scaling proposals * New front-and back-ends, including Ceph and Ganesha * Defining a software-defined storage layer * Integration with cloud storage APIs * Defining workloads for pNFS performance and stability measurement
Learning Objectives
Future requirements for pNFS and how storage architects and developers intend to meet them
How pNFS (and NFSv4) are responding to cloud storage opportunities
Consensus views on the challenges for pNFS in the near-, intermediate-, and long-term