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xen-users
Re: [Xen-users] xen and SAN.
>>> On 2009/09/21 at 12:28, Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx> wrote:
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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.
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>> What is the best solution : ISCSI (1Gb/s) or Fibre Channel (4Gb/s)?
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> 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.
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>> For the moment, I'm interesting about HP technologies with
>> bladesystem c3000 and msa2324.
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> 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.
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> John
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FC is dead, go for 10 GB/s iSCSI (based on 10 GB/s Ethernet) its also
cheaper...
Florian
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I'm not sure I buy that...if FC were dead, companies would not still be developing technologies based upon it...like 8Gb/s FC, which is alive and well. The major server manufacturers also still offer their servers - 1U, 2U, blade, etc. - with FC HBAs. Cisco is still building, selling, and supporting FC switches. FC is far from dead. Furthermore, even on 10Gb (not GB, Gb) iSCSI still has higher latency and higher overhead than FC, so even if your throughput is lower (even much lower), depending on the types of files you're using on those FC connections FC may actually yield better performance than 10Gb iSCSI. Just my two bits...
-Nick
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