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ShareFC vs iSCSI: A Winner Emerges
Posted by Mary Jander on March 11, 2008
Will there be a war between iSCSI and Fibre Channel? Or is something else going on behind the scenes something that will make that question moot in the foreseeable future?
Publicly, most storage suppliers say iSCSI and Fibre Channel can coexist; that's the point of FCoE, after all.
Or is it? While it's based on Ethernet, FCoE will require new equipment, including specially equipped switches and HBAs, as well as a series of network modifications.
These modifications include actual protocol revisions and additions to Ethernet, designed to simplify I/O for blade servers, which in turn are hosting increasing numbers of virtualized servers.
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