Posts by chris coreline

the cost with NVMe over FC is parallelism. RoCE does it a bit better, and native PCIe is the best. (not sure if this will equate to any real performance differential (line-rate notwithstanding) in any but the edgiest of edge cases)

the benefit of NVMe over FC is that its basically free, (if your Fabric is on the steep end of the tech curve)

I still think, long term, RoCE will win, but this should help FC stay relovent for a good while yet. Either way, Whoever wins, SCSI looses. Goodbye old friend, enjoy your new life shuffling tapes around.

RoCE

I bet my lunch the front end is RoCE based, its cool to see the dice start to fall on fNVMe.

Hard to tell because its early days for the whole stack, but RoCE looks like the better horse to bet then NVMe over FC which, from what i have seen, repackages all the RDMA stuff into a more standard request/responce structure to keep packet size similar. wether or not thats a big enough crutch to burry the protocol remains to be seen.

if they end up using iSER i will cry forever. God i hate iSCSI.

Disclaimer: I am a frequently incorrect protocol nerd.

sad times for startups

Sorry to hear people are loosing their jobs, hopefully everyone lands ok.

iCANT believe this iWARP nonsence,

seriously didn't we learn from iSCSI?

If you take a good protocol and force it over an IP network;

then offer it for a fraction of the price of the equipment serving lower level protocols actually *built* for this;

At least two things will happen:

1) everyone will buy your cheep solution, well done, have a cooky and enjoy your holiday in Barbados.

2) no one will like it because it runs like half a dog. the protocol will die out and we will have another 20 years of SCSI sense code troubleshooting; like our fathers before us.

FC; still not dead.

I still have relevant experience!

are they going to drop the price so i can put it in my gaming rig?

too early to think of a relovent pun

There's life in the old dog yet! I was starting to come to terms with the twilight years of FC but it looks like this will give the lads a reason to push for 128G

With the train posts outnumbering the article posts i would like to point out that this thread has been.....

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De-railed

Your welcome.

"The Journal's referring to the usual folks familiar with the matter.", damn i hate those folks, they get everywhere.

Do NASA provide training on 'One Liners' now?

"According to our source, Violin Memory is an enterprise systems company selling against EMC and HDS, not a storage component company selling against Seagate or WD. Buying in small fast disk drives is more affordable than buying in an entire flash array"

Pro Snark. This got a laugh out of me.

The final frontier

I like that the further into the future we go the more star-trek the technologies are starting to sound. Hell, ill buy some ‘phase change’ if it reduces my total cost of tachyon beam re-modulation.

Also, good odds that 2012 is the year of another raft of acquisitions for the big storage lads.