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Internets of Interest:26 Aug 10

26 August 2010 By bookmarks Leave a Comment

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 26 Aug 10:

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Should a Networking Engineer Care About Servers and Storage?

4 August 2010 By Ivan Pepelnjak Leave a Comment

As you might have noticed, everyone is talking about Data Centers lately and all the new “revolutionary” networking technologies are targeted at this segment. The reason is simple: server virtualization (not to mention the vapor-word) will forever change the networking landscape and the networking engineers might get badly hurt if caught unprepared.

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Will the Real FCoE Standards Stand Up ? No, They Can’t.

1 August 2010 By Greg Ferro 17 Comments

J Michel Metz attempted a sleight of hand magic trick to astroturf over the lack of progress on the Ethernet standards. Unpleasant.

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Blessay: FCoE Is JUST a Transition Technology

17 December 2009 By Greg Ferro 14 Comments

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.

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Internets of Interest:8 Dec 09

9 December 2009 By bookmarks 2 Comments

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 8 Dec 09:

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Why Does iSCSI Use TCP Instead of IP ?

26 November 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 ?

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Drobo – Guessing How BeyondRAID Creates Space and Volumes

23 November 2009 By Greg Ferro 17 Comments

I got a presentation from the Drobo on their new products, but I find the idea of beyondRAID and their idea of dynamically re-architecting the drive array to find the optimum and redundant configuration to be absolutely fascinating.

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

5 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.

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Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

4 May 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a 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.”

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The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel – A Reasonably Complete View

20 April 2009 By Greg Ferro 10 Comments
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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.

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Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges

30 March 2009 By Greg Ferro 17 Comments
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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.

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5 Things About Cisco Announcement and a Wrap Up[Post Prandial]

16 March 2009 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments
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So Cisco announced it Intel Servers today. Its kind of exciting if you are into Data Centers and Virtualisation. They have done something very different.

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FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree

14 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.

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Cisco Is Wishfully Wishing for FCoE Sales ?

13 March 2009 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

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

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

26 October 2008 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

The path to FCoE is not running smoothly is it?

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Algoryhme by Radia Perlman

29 August 2008 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Radia Perlman penned this poem while she developed Spanning Tree.

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Enterprise Cloud Computing – Build Your Own With Cisco VFrame – Why Wait ?

21 August 2008 By Greg Ferro 18 Comments

I can see some value in external Cloud Computing, but why not just build your own with Cisco ? Take a bunch of leftover machines, that old storage system and get a demo version and make your own.

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Brocade Buys Foundry ? No Great Loss. Storage Switches Ahoy!

22 July 2008 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Following my post a couple of days ago about Buying Brocade switches it seems that Brocade isn’t going to make their own, they just bought something off the shelf.

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