On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > 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.
I just mean that in some environments "where you need the storage to sit" and "where you need the servers that need the storage to sit" end up requiring some sort of routed topology, which eliminates AoE as an option, given that flat-network requirement. Cheers, D _______________________________________________ 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/
