Comments on: Is the FCoE Starting Pistol Aimed at iSCSI?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:35:01 +0000

iSCSI is targeting on small business while FCoE and Fibre Cnannel targeting on Enterprise.

You can see FcoE and iSCSI implementation examples at http://fcoe.ru

By: Gilles Chekroun

Gilles Chekroun — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:15:14 +0000

One main difference between iSCSI and FCoE is the fact that FCoE still relies on FCP and so is seamless to FC networks. SAN administrators really like it because nothing is changed in the management tools for SAN zoning, multipathing etc…
FCoE is still FC while iSCSI is NOT.

makes a big difference and in my opinion on of the main reason iSCSI has such a small market compared to FC

Gilles

By: Gilles Chekroun

Gilles Chekroun — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:15:14 +0000

makes a big difference and in my opinion on of the main reason iSCSI has such a small market compared to FC

Gilles

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:32:27 +0000

I’m just as nuts! The first thing I did when I got one of the prototype LeftHand arrays way back when was to plug it into a Linksys router and mount a LUN over Wi-Fi!

By: http://technorati.com/people/technorati/storagebod

http://technorati.com/people/technorati/storagebod — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:41:37 +0000

And I forgot, http://www.open-fcoe.org if you want to play with a software initiator. I’ve not done so myself but I might have a go (told you, I’m nuts).

By: http://technorati.com/people/technorati/storagebod

http://technorati.com/people/technorati/storagebod — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:37:13 +0000

I didn’t actually forget that iSCSI can run a 10GbE speeds; obviously it can run at the speed of the underlying network. I’ve run iSCSI over wireless before (I’m nuts)!

I think iSCSI will survive quite happily in it’s market sector; I think FCoE will probably end up dominating in the Enterprise Data Centre as the protocol of choice for block but I’m not expecting it to be huge in the SMB market.

I think FCoE will happen fairly quickly in the DC tho’; especially in the form of top of rack solutions. But iSCSI fatally wounded, not a chance at the moment.