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.
The Myths and Magic of Fibrechannel Over Token Ring
Market Positioning Acadia, EMC, Cisco and the Whole vBlock Idea

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
FCoE Isn’t a Replacement for Infiniband, It’s a Cheaper Copy That Customers Will Buy
Why Does iSCSI Use TCP Instead of IP ?
DCB, CEE or DCE ? Whose Term Is Best ?
Storage: Emulex Silicon Will Have iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, RDMA & iWarp in a Single Chip
FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree
FCoE Might Improve Storage but Will Complicate IT and Cause Team Disruption
Data Centre Ethernet Standards Fight Brewing ? Brocade Says FCoE in 2010.
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

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
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…






