Scaled RDMA Performance & Storage Design with Windows Server SMB 3.0

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Author(s)/Presenter(s):

Dan Lovinger

Spencer Shepler

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Abstract

This session will present a summary of the performance of the Windows Server 2012 File Server’s Remote Direct Memory Access capabilities over SMB 3.0. Systems presented will range from production “Windows Server Cluster in a Box” from EchoStreams to rack-scaled storage systems, across multiple RDMA solutions. Design considerations for highly scaled systems and their tradeoffs will be discussed. With RDMA the processor cost of bulk data access on remote file systems has the potential to approach the range of local storage. This provides a novel build option for deploying high speed and highly efficient consolidated storage solutions.