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

30th June 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Musing Tagged With: fcoe, fun, Rant

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

5th May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Opinion, Storage Tagged With: fcoe, Storage

Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

4th May 2009 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

“A lot of companies are using NFS as the preferred protocol to shared storage for VMware Virtual Infrastructure. In my personal experience, The administrative options and convenience of NFS is unmatched, and the virtual machine (VM) performance is surprising.”

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, fcoe, Storage

The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel – A Reasonably Complete View

20th April 2009 By Greg Ferro 11 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.

Filed Under: Blessay, Blog, Design, Operation, Opinion, Storage Tagged With: fcoe, iscsi, Storage

FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree

14th March 2009 By Greg Ferro 9 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: fcoe, iscsi, Storage

Cisco Is Wishfully Wishing for FCoE Sales ?

13th March 2009 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: Blog, Cisco Tagged With: data centre, fcoe, Storage

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

26th October 2008 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

The path to FCoE is not running smoothly is it?

Filed Under: Cisco Tagged With: fcoe, Storage

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

17th July 2008 By Greg Ferro 12 Comments

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 ?

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: fcoe, iscsi, Storage

Data Centre Ethernet Standards Fight Brewing ? Brocade Says FCoE in 2010.

7th July 2008 By Greg Ferro 5 Comments

I note this quote from a recent article on The Register where Brocade talks about their future strategy.

Filed Under: Cisco, Musing, Storage Tagged With: data centre, fcoe