Performance analysis of AoE-SAN using bonding interface over RAID

Storage Area Network (SAN) is a media disk system concentrated on network, that allows server or client to use the media disk, as if use local disk. There are some kind of SAN system network protocol, such as ATA over Ethernet (AoE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI). In this research, the focus is to explore the performance of AoE-SAN. SAN is implemented using ATA over Ethernet protocol. ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is an open protocol that enables network to access straight to drive disk by client. AoE added a line supplying method block device storage with exploit the network connectivity. AoE-SAN systems performance also tested using RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and no RAID. RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is a method that implements the accumulation of data on multiple disks to add fault tolerant to the system disk. From the implementation, the highest writing and reading speed is reached when system run with no RAID. RAID 5 give the lowest writing and reading speed. The highest CPU Utilization is reached when system run using RAID 0, and the result similar for the system with no RAID.