Friday, March 12, 2010

Interesting Switch Designs for Data Centre Racks From Juniper

Interesting Switch Designs for Data Centre Racks From Juniper

March 8, 2010 by Greg Ferro · 3 Comments 

I was review­ing the Juniper Virtual Chassis Technology and there are some very inter­est­ing designs pos­sible with their spe­cific stack­ing technology.

Why Does iSCSI Use TCP Instead of IP ?

Why Does iSCSI Use TCP Instead of IP ?

November 26, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 12 Comments 

The iSCSI pro­tocol car­ries block data from stor­age array to server. Typically, that is inside a data centre where loss is not a prob­lem. So why use TCP and have all that overhead ?