17 Jan
2017
17 Jan
'17
5:07 a.m.
I only used FC when everyone was jumping onto the iSCSI bandwagon for 1gb NICs and you
could get FC stuff on the cheap. I was using the Compaq MSA arrays with a built in FC
switch, and using all like cards on like servers with the then "new" ESX 2.5 and
it worked like a champ. I've always been a fan of separate storage networks but in
the brave new world of virtual everything it really doesn't matter as more and more
moves up the stack. I'm sure we will be on AWS in the next few years then in 10
years there will be the tick tock swing of moving processing into closets and then back to
private data centres...
On January 17, 2017 7:41:16 AM GMT+08:00, Tim Bradshaw <tfb(a)tfeb.org> wrote:
Less than ten years ago I wrote a big rant at people
where I worked
about fibre channel: all our machines had two entirely different
networks attached to them: one built on ethernet which was at that
point all Gb on new machines and 10Gb on some (I don't think that 10Gb
switches were really available yet though) & where you could stuff a
machine with interfaces for the cost of a good meal, and where
everything just talked to everything else ... and one built on fibre
channel which might have been 2Gb, where an interface cost as much as a
car, and where interoperability involved weeks pissing around with
firmware in the cards, and sometimes just buying new ones. Fibre
channel was just laughably worse than ethernet.
No one listened, of course, because my political skills are akin to
those of a goat, and fibre channel is *storage* which is completely
different than networking, somehow.
Perhaps people still use fibre channel.
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On 16 Jan 2017, at 16:44, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I held up the two cards, disclosed the cost, and said "this ATM card
is
always going to be expensive but the ethernet
card is gonna be $10 in
a year or two. Why? Volume. Every computer has ethernet, it's
gonna
do nothing but get cheaper. And you're
gonna see ethernet over
fiber,
> long haul, you're going to see 100 Mbit, gigabit ethernet, and it's
> going to be cheap. ATM is going nowhere."