NVMe/TCP vs iSCSI: Modern Storage Protocol Performance and Implementation

Explore a 33-minute conference talk from SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa that delves into the evolution of remote block storage protocols, focusing on how NVMe/TCP is revolutionizing storage technology. Learn why iSCSI, the dominant protocol for remote block storage over commodity network hardware for the past 20 years, is becoming a bottleneck in modern high-performance storage deployments. Discover how the NVMe Express group's development of NVMe over Fabrics protocol family, particularly NVMe over TCP, offers superior performance with lower latency, higher throughput, and reduced protocol overhead compared to traditional iSCSI. Gain insights into the technical aspects of NVMe, its TCP implementation, and understand the current support landscape for this emerging technology that's setting new standards in storage networking.