My company is in the process of planning a new data center, and is looking to avoid the cost associated with traditional fibre channel storage. The original plan was use 10Gb NFS for everything (mostly ESXi hosts, plus some big Oracle RAC servers on RHEL6). But after doing some more research, the database guys are balking at NFS and want to stick with block devices. So, that is leading us back to FCoE for the Oracle databases (they'll stick with NFS for the ESXi hosts).
They apparently attempted FCoE about 4 years ago when the converged network adapters were new, and ran into a number of issues (I don't know what they were). I've personally worked a lot with traditional FC on RHEL, but haven't ever done anything with FCoE. Our network gear is Cisco, the storage is NetApp. Does anyone have any comments, experiences or things to watch out for? Thanks, Christina
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