For what it's worth, we didn't go with ATAoE because it was essentially supported only by Coraid, and for our production equipment, that was a bit too precarious for our tastes.
On the other hand, if I had to go with a general purpose cheap array, it would be hard to pick between ATAoE and the Drobo Elite iSCSI implementation. BeyondRAID is like magic. --Matt On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. _______________________________________________ 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/
