On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 10:50 -0400, Doug Hughes wrote: > Tracy Reed wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 11:24:43PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey spake thusly: > >> Tracy will surely tell you AOE is the bomb, but he's the only one. > >> ;-) I don't see the advantage. > > I mainly like the simplicity. It is dead simple to set up and keep > > running > There's another aspect to simplicity. the AOE protocol specification is > only a few pages long. That means that the implementations are likely to > be less buggy when compared to the > 100 pages of ISCSI protocol, which > most vendors still don't have fully implemented, even today. (MS seems > to have the most complete and bug-free implementation, which is > interesting in all sorts of ways).
I don't buy this argument. iSCSI is in *wide* deployment in *many* *many* enterprises. An iSCSI SAN seems almost the default way to deploy virtualization [VMware]. If you are worried about stability and support - go with iSCSI. AOE is a pretty fringe solution. -- Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
