[geeks] FibreChannel or FDDI

[Cory Smelosky]

Disregard, it's supported!

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=12464&deviceCategory=io&partner=31&releases=76&keyword=8000&deviceTypes=5&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net>
| To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 12:54:34 PM
| Subject: Re: [geeks] FibreChannel or FDDI
| 
| 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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