Tracy Reed wrote: > 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. > > There's another aspect to simplicity. the AOE protocol specification is only a few pages long. That means that the implementations are likely to be less buggy when compared to the > 100 pages of ISCSI protocol, which most vendors still don't have fully implemented, even today. (MS seems to have the most complete and bug-free implementation, which is interesting in all sorts of ways).
One must balance this against availability and vendor support, of course.. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
