It’s pretty traditional to start the year looking at what will be prevalent in the coming 12 months. In this opinion article, I will discuss whether we’ll see the prevalence of iSCSI or FCoE and what we can expect, looking back this time in 2011.
History and Background on iSCSI
iSCSI as a concept was [...]
I’m in the process of migrating my existing physical infrastructure into a virtual environment. There’s nothing like “eating your own dog food” (there’s got to be a better expression than that) for testing out your beliefs on how technology should be implemented, so it’s only fitting I virtualise the IT infrastructure I rely on.
In [...]
I’ve been working on getting my “home SAN” into a usable configuration over the last few weeks. One hassle has been VMware (and I won’t even mention Hyper-V again) and the support for fibre channel.
I guess thinking logically about it, VMware can’t support every type of HBA out there and the line has [...]
Fibre Channel over Ethernet has been back on my radar recently, especially as it was touted again at Storage Networking World in Orlando last week. Unfortunately I wasn’t there and didn’t see for myself, although I was in Orlando the week before on vacation. I can imagine if I’d extended [...]
Following on from snig’s post, I promised a blog on FC switch oversubscription. It’s been on my list for some time and I have discussed it before, however it has also a subject I’ve discussed with clients from a financial perspective and here’s why; most people look at the cost of a fibre [...]
Reading Sangod’s recent post on write acceleration, I couldn’t help writing a response, as I’ve been looking at this whole subject recently.
First of all, I don’t disagree with the concept of synchronous. Yes, the I/O must be confirmed (key word there) at the remote [...]
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