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GNR / Mestor Future Research Directions<br />

• GNR “ring” configuration –<br />

– Adaptation of Building Block Approach<br />

– Shared (Dual Ported) disks<br />

• Data managed by storage nodes<br />

– Overlapping cfg: ½ the nodes of std ctlrs<br />

• <strong>Storage</strong> node pairs to shared disks<br />

• Scale out to many storage nodes<br />

• Global namespace / Disk mgmt<br />

• Mestor<br />

– Non Shared disks approach / Network RAID<br />

• Data striped across storage nodes<br />

• <strong>Storage</strong> node to captive disks<br />

• Scale out to many storage nodes<br />

• Global namespace / Disk mgmt<br />

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<strong>IBM</strong> Confidential<br />

Fabrics<br />

© 2012 <strong>IBM</strong> Corporation

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