[geeks] FibreChannel or FDDI

[Cory Smelosky]

Looking like that's the best option...seems VMWare doesn't support the Emulex LP8000 in modern versions. ;)

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
| To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 12:46:30 PM
| Subject: Re: [geeks] FibreChannel or FDDI
| 
| I'd first consider adding a second GigE switch to carry iSCSI traffic
| separate
| from other network traffic.
| 
| Lionel
| 
| On Feb 14, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:
| 
| > On 02/14/2013 10:08 AM, b4 at gewt.net wrote:
| >> Hello!
| >>
| >> At home, i'm currently running VMWare, and i'm using shared disks
| >> on
| >> a NAS4FREE box via iSCSI over gigE shared with the VMs.
| >>
| >
| > How many disks are we talking about?
| >
| > It's *extremely unlikely* you are constrained by gigE.
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