[ale] FCoE

[Jim Kinney]

sadly, I get a mish-mash of variable hardware scavenged from the scrap
heap. Core network switch is 10/100, 12 year old servers run the bulk of
the vm's. We shell out enough in power and cooling because of antique
hardware that we could replace the entire vm stack with a single, modern
system and pay for it fully in 2 years on power and cooling savings. But
THAT is from a different budget so no one sees the savings.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:

> Simplicity of configuration, higher performance, and lower cost. But I'm
> in danger of getting off topic for this forum. Our sales guys answer that
> question for a living.
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 20, 2012, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> > And the benefit of that over a fibre HBA would be...?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ed
> Cashin
> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 10:01 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] FCoE
> >
> > FCoE is nice if you have compatibility requirements, but you might
> > talk to one of the sales people at my employer otherwise.  Our HBA
> > (closed source driver) makes the (AoE) storage targets on the ethernet
> > network appear as SCSI, but the open source initiator for Linux makes
> > them appear as Linux block devices.
> >
> >  http://www.coraid.com/
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Looking at fiber channel over Ethernet. It's in the kernel but it's a
> new
> >> technology for me as it requires some $$$$ hardware.
> >>
> >> It looks like a good way to glue multiple devices (servers, storage)
> onto a
> >> single very high-speed connection. I'm looking at dual 10G Ethernet to a
> >> switch that support 10G fiber ports as well. May be getting my paws on a
> >> pair of NexSan satabeast chassis for storage. Thinking of gluing those
> into
> >> a KVM stack with some 10G for some high speed, high core core count cpu
> >> boxes. (plus some older VMWare ESX boxes on copper 1G Ethernet).
> >>
> >> Anyone have any gotchas/tips/ "Jim what the hell are you doing?!" ideas
> they
> >> want to share?
> >>
> >> --
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> >> James P. Kinney III
> >>
> >> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> >> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
> they
> >> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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