On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Adam Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to open a brief discussion on iSCSI. Recently, we've had two > vendors tell us to abandon iSCSI. We're not using it extensively -- just > investigating it for possible use in certain applications in the data > center and remote offices (primarily remote offices). > > Cisco, naturally, is on the "iSCSI is dead, long live FCoE" bandwagon -- > hell, they're driving it. To be honest, I'm not sure I see much value in > FCoE (or, more specifically, DCE) in existing data centers. It's still > expensive to upgrade to it, from adding or switching to Nexus switches to > adding CNA cards to every host. > > We also recently spoke to IBM, and they told us that they have not seen > any iSCSI implementations in production in the field (granted, this was > one local sales engineer). >
While that SE may not have seen any, there certainly are lots of installations out there. I heard the same type of talk from IBM many years ago about FC, back when they did not have an FC solution of their own. As far as production installations, my previous job was in a Colorado local government and although we were not using iSCSI ourselves, a number of the local cities and counties were. That was a couple of years ago and they pretty happy with it then. Check out Lefthand Networks - although they were purchased by HP last year, they are still around. (But I still don't have direct experience with it, so I'm neither for nor against it.) - Gary _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
