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Re: [Xen-users] xen and SAN.
Am 21.09.2009 20:16, schrieb John Madden:
>> In my case, I want to use 3 physical servers and 1 SAN to manage 10-15
>> virtual servers.
>>
>> What is the best solution : ISCSI (1Gb/s) or Fibre Channel (4Gb/s)?
>
> That depends on your needs. I'm personally skittish about passing disk
> blocks over ethernet and prefer FC, but it's expensive and if you
> believe [some of] the pundits, everything is going to ethernet
> eventually anyway. I think it's still safe to say though that at this
> time, if you need really reliable disk at theoretically-higher
> performance and you can afford it, go with FC.
>
>> What kind of device are you using ?
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> 4Gb/s FC to EMC DMX-3 and IBM DS-4700 through Brocade fabrics.
>
>> For the moment, I'm interesting about HP technologies with
>> bladesystem c3000 and msa2324.
>
> FWIW, our experience with HP's blades has been less than thrilling,
> wouldn't recommend them. We have a few (5) of IBM's BladeCenters though
> and we've been extremely happy with them. I think they're more
> expensive up-front (?) but well worth it.
>
> John
>
>
>
FC is dead, go for 10 GB/s iSCSI (based on 10 GB/s Ethernet) its also
cheaper...
Florian
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