Hi Tracy,
very thoughtful posting, I've arrived at similar conclusions and I am in
a similar way from an early stage emotionally attached to a protocol of
fine craftsmanship that has potential per se.
In the beginning I've advocated the AoE protocol to be converted into an
RFC, that would have
On 2012-10-19 15:19, Ed Cashin wrote:
AoE use is accelerating rapidly, and iSCSI persists because even
though it's not the best fit for same-LAN data storage, folks can
still get it to work if they are willing and able to deal with the
complexity, sacrifice the performance, and don't need the
On Oct 21, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Nicolas Jungers wrote:
On 2012-10-19 15:19, Ed Cashin wrote:
AoE use is accelerating rapidly, and iSCSI persists because even
though it's not the best fit for same-LAN data storage, folks can
still get it to work if they are willing and able to deal with the
AoE use is accelerating rapidly, and iSCSI persists because even though it's
not the best fit for same-LAN data storage, folks can still get it to work if
they are willing and able to deal with the complexity, sacrifice the
performance, and don't need the kind of scaling that virtualization and
I'm happy to hear that there is now progress on getting the initiator
updated in upstream, hopefully this will help to correct the
assumption that AoE is dead or dying.
Not that I'm very knowledgeable about the storage sector, but it seems
to me that AoEs main problem as a technology is
Hi,
Happy to sse that Coraid is contributing to the kernel.org initiator!
I have tryed for a while to convince customers of my former company to give
AoE a try. After presenting them the technology they had no doubt about AoE
superiority over iSCSI. However, they often chose iscsi as it appeared
