Storage Infrastructure

Purpose

Design, deploy, and operate storage infrastructure for block, file, and object workloads. Cover SAN/NAS, NVMe-oF, Ceph, MinIO, CSI drivers, storage performance, and backup integration.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "storage", "SAN", "NAS", "NVMe", "Ceph", "MinIO", "CSI", "PersistentVolume", "iSCSI", "Fibre Channel", "RAID", "ZFS", "software-defined storage", "object storage", "block storage", "file storage", "IOPS", "throughput", "latency", "fio", "iostat".

Input Context

• Workload: block (database / VM), file (NFS / SMB), or object (S3 / blob).
• Scale: number of nodes, total capacity, IOPS target.
• Connectivity: ethernet (iSCSI/NVMe-oF TCP), InfiniBand, or Fibre Channel.
• Budget: pure flash, hybrid, or HDD.
• Filesystem: XFS, ext4, ZFS, Btrfs, or CephFS.

Output Artifact

Storage architecture summary: protocol, media, RAID level, redundancy model, performance target, provisioning strategy.