On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 11:24:43PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey spake thusly: > Tracy will surely tell you AOE is the bomb, but he's the only one. > ;-) I don't see the advantage.
I mainly like the simplicity. It is dead simple to set up and keep running. > The only advantage I've ever heard rumored of AOE over iscsi would > be performance ... if you can measure and actually see any > performance difference. But I doubt it. The performance difference would be due to TCP/IP overhead which is readily calculable. But if you aren't saturating your links anyway you won't really notice. However, if you ever find yourself using or considering the use of a TCP Offload Engine (TOE) which seems popular in iSCSI circles then you might consider the performance advantages of a storage protocol which does not require such tricks and added complexity/expense. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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