In the recent weeks, J. Michael Metz from Cisco entered a ****ing contest with my friend Greg and decided to prove that the FCoE standards are done.
Will the Real FCoE Standards Stand Up ? No, They Can’t.
1 August 2010 By 17 Comments
The Myths and Magic of Fibrechannel Over Token Ring
17 July 2010 By 9 Comments
Market Positioning Acadia, EMC, Cisco and the Whole vBlock Idea
17 May 2010 By 6 Comments
So a while back, Cisco, VMWare and EMC announced that they are forming a partnership to co-operatively sell and support products in a joint venture named Acadia. Selected engineers and sales grunts, USD$200 million bucks and “no large customer left untouched” door to door marketing campaign. Is there anything to it ?
Blessay: FCoE Is JUST a Transition Technology
17 December 2009 By 14 Comments
FCoE Isn’t a Replacement for Infiniband, It’s a Cheaper Copy That Customers Will Buy
6 December 2009 By 11 Comments
Why Does iSCSI Use TCP Instead of IP ?
26 November 2009 By 12 Comments
DCB, CEE or DCE ? Whose Term Is Best ?
13 October 2009 By 13 Comments
FibreChannel over Ethernet (FCoE) is coming to your data centre. The problem is that FCoE doesn’t work properly on ordinary ethernet switches. What do I mean by “properly” ? We need new standards to let it reach its potential but there are too many acronyms.
Storage: Emulex Silicon Will Have iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, RDMA & iWarp in a Single Chip
5 May 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel – A Reasonably Complete View
20 April 2009 By 10 Comments
A number of storage bloggers have been questioning the relevance of FCoE and why would you bother with it. Given the size of marketing budgets pushing FCoE and the reality distortion this generates, lets look at the case AGAINST FCoE.
Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges
30 March 2009 By 17 Comments
TRILL is a key network technology for enabling Cloud Computing by allowing for better migrations of VM’s, and better utilisation of the network switching fabric and much improved stability of the Data Centre Server Fabric.
FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree
14 March 2009 By 9 Comments
FCoE Might Improve Storage but Will Complicate IT and Cause Team Disruption
21 September 2008 By 2 Comments
I was thinking over the integration of an IT Engineering team to provide a cloud computing services. While discussing team responsibilities and operational “edges” I realised how divisive and dysfunctional FCoE will be to a team.
Data Centre Ethernet Standards Fight Brewing ? Brocade Says FCoE in 2010.
7 July 2008 By 4 Comments
I note this quote from a recent article on The Register where Brocade talks about their future strategy.
iSCSI Network Designs: Part 5 – iSCSI Multipathing, Host Bus Adapters, High Availability and Redundancy
16 May 2008 By 3 Comments
In iSCSI Part 3 – Server Side – iSCSI Host Bus Adapters and IP Performance I looked at how server side issues would affect the traffic generated on a per server basis. I recommended that you use iSCSI HBAs for high intensity servers to meet the high levels of performance.
The next level is evaluate how the server should connect to the network, specifically, this means how many ethernet ports you need, and what configuration is needed to support them to deliver high availability / redundancy and increased bandwidth.
Not Anti FCoE, More Like Anti Fibrechannel – A Response
17 April 2008 By 4 Comments
I got linked from Dante Malagrino at the Cisco Data Center blog yesterday. He writes a good post on why FCoE might be a good idea. Let me just say I am not only anti-FCoE, I am anti-Fibrechannel.
My rebuttal after the jump…
