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.

Internets of Interest:8 Dec 09

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

Why Does iSCSI Use TCP Instead of IP ?

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 ?

Drobo — Guessing How BeyondRAID Creates Space and Volumes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

Algoryhme by Radia Perlman

Radia Perlman penned this poem while she developed Spanning Tree.

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

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.

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

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.

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 ?

iSCSI Network Designs: Part 5 — iSCSI Multipathing, Host Bus Adapters, High Availability and Redundancy

This Post is Part of a Series  —  click for list on iscsi» 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.
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iSCSI Network Designs: Part 4 — Fibrechannel Integration

This Post is Part of a Series  —  click for list on iscsi» , iscsi» Its pos­sible that you would already have some Fibrechannel in your estate. Perhaps the cost of Fibrechannel for some new serv­ers is too much when you cal­cu­late the HBA and Fibrechannel switch port costs, or you don’t need the com­plex­ity of Fibrechannel for […]

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