On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:29:23PM -0400, Matt Simmons spake thusly: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Adam Tauno Williams > > 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].
Sure, because vmware doesn't support AoE afaik. You don't have much choice. > > If you are worried about stability and support - go with iSCSI. AOE is > > a pretty fringe solution. AoE has been far more stable for me than any of the various iSCSI target/initiators I have deployed. It is just dead simple. There really isn't much to go wrong with it. > 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. It is FOSS. Anyone can support it (not that I have ever really needed much support in my 4 years of using it). It is in the standard kernel distribution. Various people have written their own AoE targets even. I buy Supermicro boxes, put disks in them, bond dual gig-e interfaces, create an LVM volume group, point vblade (FOSS AoE target) at the VG and let my Xen dom0's running cluster-lvm slice up disk and install virtual machines. I have deployed several dozen of these. This has worked great for years now. You don't necessarily need Coraid or much of any real support. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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