I think the best blend would be i SCSI connected to the server, with AoE providing storage to a box that will handle the RAID, LVMs etc. Server---->i SCSI----->Linux Aggregator------->AoE Storage Ken Fuchs wrote: >>>On Thu, 26 May 2005, Florin Iucha wrote: >>> >>> > > > >>>>Do you have any links/references/howto on using Fiber Channel? I was >>>>interested in the same thing, but I did not find any good references. >>>> >>>> > > > >>Ken Fuchs wrote: >> >> > > > >>>Rather than using Fibre Channel (FC), one might consider ATA/SATA over >>>Ethernet (AoE). There's a good article on AoE in the June issue of >>>Linux Magazine. There's also a less technical article on AoE in the >>>June issue of Linux Journal. >>> >>> > > > >>>At least for new equipment, AoE network devices will be a about 1/10 the >>>cost of FC devices. >>> >>> > >Josh Welch wrote: > > > >>Anyway, from what I've found ATA over Ethernet seems like a one horse >>show, which raises my suspicions somewhat. More interesting to me is >>iSCSI. I can see their arguments regarding the unnecessary additional >>overhead required by wrapping a storage protocol in TCP/IP when the >>disks are only 3 feet away, but it seems to me that it is simpler to >>wrap something in TCP/IP than to figure out a new transport layer >>without screwing it up. >> >> > > > >>There is a pretty good Linux iSCSI target in development right now, >>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108475. I just >>wish I had sparkier hardware to really test it out against. >> >> > >iSCSI is fine technology, but the overhead of TCP/IP is huge. Please >note that many consider iSCSI to be too slow and complicated. AoE is >fast and simple, but may be too simple for many applications. On the >other hand, there isn't a complete Linux solution for AoE clustering >yet, so AoE is single node only for now. > >Sincerely, > >Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >