1.2. Remote storage overview
Remote storage provides access to storage devices over a network connection such as LAN, internet, or Fibre Channel. This allows you to centralize storage resources and share them across multiple systems.
The following are the remote storage options available in RHEL 10:
- Storage connectivity options
- iSCSI
- RHEL 10 uses the targetcli tool to add, remove, view, and monitor iSCSI storage interconnects.
- Fibre Channel (FC)
RHEL 10 provides the following native Fibre Channel drivers:
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lpfc -
qla2xxx -
zfcp
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- Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe)
An interface that allows a host software utility to communicate with solid state drives. Use the following types of fabric transport to configure NVMe over fabrics:
- NVMe over fabrics using Remote Direct Memory Access (NVMe/RDMA)
- NVMe over fabrics using Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC)
- NVMe over fabrics using TCP (NVMe/TCP)
- Device Mapper multipathing (DM Multipath)
- Allows you to configure multiple I/O paths between server nodes and storage arrays into a single device. These I/O paths are physical SAN connections that can include separate cables, switches, and controllers.
- Network file system
- NFS
- SMB