Re: [Xen-users] xen and SAN.

[Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Nick Couchman <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not sure I buy that...if FC were dead, companies would not still be 
> developing technologies based upon it...like 8Gb/s FC, which is alive and 
> well. The major server manufacturers also still offer their servers - 1U, 
> 2U, blade, etc. - with FC HBAs. Cisco is still building, selling, and 
> supporting FC switches. FC is far from dead. Furthermore, even on 10Gb (not 
> GB, Gb) iSCSI still has higher latency and higher overhead than FC, so even 
> if your throughput is lower (even much lower), depending on the types of 
> files you're using on those FC connections FC may actually yield better 
> performance than 10Gb iSCSI. Just my two bits...


right after world peace, my big wish would be to have InfiniBand
everywhere for storage...


--
Javier

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