- 8:30-9:00am - Breakfast & Registration
- 9:00-9:15am - Dave Brittle, Opening Remarks
- 9:15-10:00am - Sun Microsystems Keynote:
NFS: Back to the Future?
Brian L. Wong, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Network Storage
NFS has been around for a long time and does a lot of things.
While it has many shortcomings and it has been outmarketed by
other solutions, NFS and its variants still have a place in the
future. This is particularly true given recent developments in
optical transmission, raw silicon availability and storage
technology. With some diligence in implementation and some
marketing efforts, NFS can have a central place in the future
computing landscape.
- 10:00-10:45am -
Hummingbird Keynote, "NFS In the Microsoft World", Danny Masci
Why should we use NFS with Microsoft Windows ?
A discussion of the different Windows PC-based file and print
sharing technologies and how NFS wins.
- 10:45-11:00am - Break
- 11:00-11:45am - "EMC", John Hayden
NFS is a mature protocol capable of providing shared access to
file resources in an IP environment. By leveraging the existing
talents of NFS and the high performance of SAN channel data
delivery, it is possible to create a system where NFS semantics
govern the delivery of data over the SAN. Such a system allows
scalable, high performance, and most of all transparent access
to shared file resources.
- 11:45am-12:15pm -
"Where is NFS version 4?",
Spencer Shepler, Sun Microsystems
RFC3010, which defines NFS version 4, was published as a
Proposed Standard by the IETF in December 2000.
Implementations of the NFS version 4 protocol are actively
being built and show much promise. The IETF's process of
requiring implementation experience before moving a protocol to
Draft Standard has shown to be prudent in the case of NFS
version 4 where some protocol issues have been found and
corrected. Some of these issues and the future of the standard
will be discussed along with what related activities have taken
place in the industry.
- 12:15-1:15pm - Lunch
- 1:15-1:45pm -
"NFSv4 Replication and Migration",
Robert Thurlow, Sun Microsystems
NFS Version 4 will provide new support within the protocol for
migration and replication, and a follow-on effort from the
NFSv4 working group will define a server-to-server protocol.
In this presentation, you will hear about progress of that work
and how replication and migration will help you solve
enterprise solutions.
- 1:45-2:30pm -
"Managing Performance in a Shared Storage Environment",
Anne C. Skamarock, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates
The primary value proposition for the NFS technology has always
been consolidation of data for shared access and ease of
management. Since the inception of NFS there has been a
constant call for greater performance from the shared storage
environments.
The outcry from customers requiring greater performance, lead
us to develop the Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance.
These specialized appliances improved the service performance
significantly. However, performance was still not satisfactory
to the latency watching database managers.
This presentation will look at the trade-offs between high
performance and shared data access. How far can the industry
push performance in a shared environment?
Does it make sense to put latency sensitive applications data
into a shared environment? Finally, this paper will look at
tools that would allow customers to understand and control
their performance in a shared storage environment.
- 2:30-3:00pm - Break
- 3:00-3:45pm -
"Delegations in NFS-v4",
David Noveck, Network Appliance
Delegations are a protocol feature in NFS-v4 that
allows the client to avoid communication with the server in
many common situations. The performance benefits of
delegations in various types of environments are discussed.
Implementation issues that might impede widespread use of this
feature are also explored.
- 3:45-4:30pm -
"NFSv4 Open Source Project Update",
Andy Adamson, U.Michigan/CITI
An overview of implemented features, with a description of the
changes made to the Linux kernel to implement the protocol, and
a presentation of issues in matching protocol requirements with
POSIX behaviour in local Linux filesystems. A discussion of
the management of client and server state, security and locking
mechanisms, compound RPC, and client data caching as well as a
comparison of performance of NFS Versions 3 and 4
implementations in areas such as reading, writing, and
locking. Finally, closing with a discussion of some of the
challenges in NFSv4 system administration and issues in
migrating from and coexisting with earlier versions of NFS.
- 8:30-9:00am - Breakfast & Registration
- 9:00-9:15am - Dave Brittle, Opening Remarks
- 9:15-10:00am -
"EMC Keynote: NAS for the Enterprise",
Christian Adams, NAS Principle Architect, EMC Corporation
Over the last few years, network-attached storage (NAS) has
rapidly gained market share over direct-attached storage (DAS)
and storage-area networks (SAN). Within the NAS market, the
high-end, or enterprise, segment is growing the fastest. This
talk focuses on the market requirements for enterprise NAS, and
various solutions that strive to meet that need. It also
discusses how NFSv4 can play a role in this market, and
possible protocol extensions to better serve the needs of
enterprise customers.
- 10:00-10:45am -
Network Appliance Keynote, "Storage Networking",
Brian Pawlowski, Senior Technical Director, Network Appliance, Inc.
Arguments about SAN and NAS are becoming increasingly
irrelevant. Customers are interested in solutions that solve
problems. Where does NFS fit into all this? What are its
strengths? What are its weaknesses? Do current trends suggest
new directions for NFS evolution? All these questions will be
answered.
- 10:45-11:00am - Break
- 11:00-11:30am -
"NFS over RDMA" , Alex Chiu, Sun Microsystems
NFS over RDMA will deliver a high performance file access
technology which offers high throughput, low latency, reduced
CPU overhead, and memory-to-memory file access for in-room
networks with high speed RDMA-based interconnects.
- 11:30-12:15pm -
"NFS: A Service Provider's Perspective" ,
Tim Bosserman, Consulting Research Engineer, Earthlink, Inc.
NFS is a crucial component in EarthLink's datacenter. It
allows EarthLink to provide robust, scaleable services to our
customer base. It is not a perfect solution, however. In this
presentation, the EarthLink "standard architecture" will be
introduced, and how NFS is used in that architecture. The
competitive aspects of using NFS as a backend storage
technology will be discussed, along with the drawbacks that
have been encountered and the workarounds used to surmount
them. Finally, a look at forthcoming technological
improvements will be made, along with a discussion of how they
may help EarthLink improve its backend services.
- 12:15-1:15pm - Lunch
- 1:15-1:45pm -
"What's New in SpecFS 3.0" ,
Mark Mackey, Hewlett Packard Presentation
A high level discussion on the modifications made to new SFS
benchmark.
- 1:45-2:15pm -
"Managing Data Resources using CIM/WBEM" , Doug McCallum, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
An introduction to CIM/WBEM, with information about what Sun
does with CIM/WBEM, and a discussion of how this technology
might apply to NFS.
- 2;15-2:45pm -
"Expanding Markets for NFS" ,
Craig O'Sullivan, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NFS, the tried and true file sharing technology for the UNIX
community, is expanding its capabilities for use with the
Internet and for performance-oriented applications. This talk
will focus on what types of customer applications will benefit
from these new capabilites and why customers are likely to take
notice.
- 2:45-3:15pm - Break
- 3:15-4:30pm - Mediated Panel Discussion