So is fiber channel dead? Can 10G do the trick?
Lots of hype surrounding the topic of 10G taking over FC as the emerging technology of choice. I was interviewed some time ago questioning what I thought of the roll out of 10G in the datacenter. I mentioned that I really thought that storage was going to be the driving factor of a successful replacement. For the most part, this seems to remain true with the exception of Virtualization and some of the new requirements over the past few years. After all, if you are deploying 3 bandwidth intensive VMs on one host its only logical to think that you will run into a potential bottleneck.
So far very little conversation at Storage Decisions 2007 on this topic but expect to hear more when we speak to more on the vendor side of the table.
Even if the industry can overcome the technology requirements and release 10G for storage we still have the question of who owns the technology. Does this now fall into your storage engineers or will you pass this onto your network engineers. What will the cross training requirements be for your network team to understand the intricacies of your storage infrastructure?
[tags] storage, fiber channel, nas, san, storage decisions, iscsi [/tags]
