On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Derek J. Balling wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Tracy Reed wrote: >> I have done such tests but I don't have them at hand to share with you >> at the moment. Expensive single disks such as 15k SAS can do >> 1Gb/s. But your typical 7.2k RPM SATA does 50-70 it seems. I will see >> if I can dig some up. The nice thing about AoE is that there is little >> to no network overhead. It is not TCP nor IP. It runs purely at layer >> 2 > > ... and thus requires a large flat network? There's a lot places where > that's simply not practical.
If you are running AoE then a dedicated, isolated network for storage is a really good idea. You want to have a small number of file servers speaking AoE to storage and then making that data available to clients on a separate network. Gigabit ethernet is now so cheap that it is very foolish to not run private networks. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
