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Emulex and QLogic bring FCoE closer

Macka

No Solaris 

Posted Tuesday 31st March 2009 13:16 GMT

Notice how Solaris is conspicuously absent from that list of supported operating systems. Maybe they should hold off on AIX too and wait for the new SolArix.

Anonymous Coward

@ No Solaris 

Posted Tuesday 31st March 2009 13:43 GMT

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I think that is an omission. Solaris and SPARC are shown as supported on the QLogic website for all of their CNAs.

ciaran

Whats TCOP/IP then? 

Posted Tuesday 31st March 2009 14:40 GMT

Boffin

Total Cost of Pain over IP ?

Doug

Teir 1 storage vendor already shipping FCoE 

Posted Tuesday 31st March 2009 23:47 GMT

No need to wait for a Teir 1 storage vendor to ship a native FCoE array. Netapp does it today. Speaking of convergence , along with FCoE they also do FCP, iscsi, nfs, cifs, http and ftp from a single controller all from a single pool of disk.

Anonymous Coward

@ Doug - Knock the marketing off 

Posted Wednesday 1st April 2009 09:41 GMT

Stop

They've qualified for connectivity as have EMC that doesn't mean shipping and why would you buy when the infrastructure isn't really available to support this.

Single pool of disks ? that's unless you happen to need high availability, in which case you'll need 2 filers clustered and two pools, unless you want to run active / passive. But then again Ontap is only psuedo active / active anyway since each filer only has exclusive access to it's own pool, which means two points of management and potentially wasted capacity.