Internets of Interest:18 Jan 10

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 18 Jan 10:

Internets of Interest:16 Jan 10

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 16 Jan 10:

Blessay: FCoE Is JUST a Transition Technology

Chris Evans believes that “FCoE” will rule the world. Hah. I believe it’s just a trans­ition tech­no­logy that drags Storage out of it’s closed, pro­pri­et­ary mind­set into the open col­lab­or­at­ive world. Data Networks can eas­ily adapt.

FCoE Isn’t a Replacement for Infiniband, It’s a Cheaper Copy That Customers Will Buy

There is some mis­con­cep­tion by many in the stor­age industry that FCoE is some type of replace­ment for Infiniband. My view is that FCoE is cheaper, dumber but MARKETABLE alternative.

Why Does This Remind Me of Putting FCoE in My Network ?

This photo reminds me of net­works that I have worked on. FCoE anyone ?

Storage: Emulex Silicon Will Have iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, RDMA & iWarp in a Single Chip

Buried in this art­icle from the Register is apara­graph detail­ing Emulex Gen2 chip that does all stor­age vir­tu­al­isa­tion in a single chip. The FC boost­ers will be unhappy, they will have to compete.

Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel — a Reasonably Complete View

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.

Blessay:Cisco UCS Really Is Just Blade Servers With Fancy NICs & A Response to HP Network Ambition

I found some inform­a­tion today, real­ised that UCS is really serv­ers with fancy NICs. It also rein­forced my belief that Cisco is respond­ing to HP & IBM, not attack­ing them.

FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree

One of the most amus­ing parts about Fibre Channel over Ethernet(FCoE) is that Spanning Tree is mak­ing a tri­umphant comeback. And I am talk­ing a Roman style parade after the gates to the city have been built and the streets lined with gold.

Cisco Is Wishfully Wishing for FCoE Sales ?

Is Omar Sultan from Cisco is wish­ing that FCoE would actu­ally get some sales ?

Foundry Postpones Vote on Brocade Deal, Stock Plunges  — Network World

The path to FCoE is not run­ning smoothly is it?

Are You Ready to Purchase a Brocade Ethernet Switch ? What ?

One of the more amus­ing byproducts of the FCoE mar­ket­ing push, is that Brocade has announced that they will pro­du­cing FCoE switches for their cus­tom­ers. So, are you ready to buy a Brocade Ethernet switch ?

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.

Data Networks — More Reliable to Than Storage Networks ?

I was par­ti­cip­at­ing in a stor­age design dis­cus­sion and a Storage per­son threw up their most com­mon com­plaint about net­work­ing  —  “we don’t know how to build reli­able net­works”. Let me take a shot at that.

More People Against FCoE — Part 2

More posts from people who are opposed to FCoE. More meat for the mill.…

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…

Where Are All the Features for Nexus ? Or Is It Just Me ?

I wrote this in response to Omar Sultan at Cisco on ‘Why you want this switch ?
I was look­ing the NX-​​​​OS fea­ture nav­ig­ator today and NX-​​​​OS looks (cur­rently) like a sub­stan­tially feature-​​​​free plat­form  —  check out the NX-​​​​OS Feature Navigator and con­sider what is not lis­ted here.
A couple of other things that strike me as odd:

NX-​​​​OS has a primary […]

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