Re: [Xen-users] AoE (Was: iscsi vs nfs for xen VMs)

[Peter Phaal <peter.phaal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I must admit, AoE does seem to have it's upsides - in past threads (here and
> elsewhere) I've only ever seen it being criticised.

One upside to AoE is that, as an Ethernet protocol, you can get a lot
of visibility into SAN activity using standard sFlow instrumentation
in physical and virtual switches:

http://blog.sflow.com/2011/03/aoe.html

FYI sFlow is supported by the Open vSwitch and is easy to enable on XCP 1.0

http://blog.sflow.com/2010/12/xcp-10-beta.html

Peter

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