On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Jason Gurtz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Any reason why you wouldn't go for fcoe on nexus 5k? :) > > It does look like that is what the box is really for. To answer the > question, it all depends on what SAN goes in. A lot of the newer stuff > with better value is iSCSI only and eschews FC in any form. >
Well i'm not to sure on the better value point - I doubt it will be long before netapp and the likes pop a fcoe cna into their kit. Current prices of gen-2 cna's are not really any more expensive than a dual port 10ge card so why wouldn't you go fcoe? No ip, no tcp windows, no need to chew cpu on hosts no managing authentication > Maybe I better question to ask is how does the nexus 5k fare against 49xx > switch doing iSCSI? I don't think it would make much difference really, 5k will have less latency not that it really matters for iscsi :) > > ~JasonG > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
