> On Aug 17, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr <g...@shiresoft.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> If you *really* want to see how this was screwed up, take a look at
> Fibre Channel (which is basically SCSI over an optical Fibre network).
>
> While the commands are standard, you can’t really build a Fibre Channel
> configuration without using (a lot) of vendor unique commands. And guess
> what? Each vendor has their own set! It’s so bad that each combination
> has to be tested (even down to the Fibre channel cards…the commands
> they support are not all the same). In other words, just because I have a
> working configuration with brand A card, brand C switch and brand E
> disk array, does not mean that I can put in a brand B switch and still expect
> it all to work. The sad thing is that the industry is/was happy with that.
But customers weren't, which is why iSCSI was so successful. It offers the
same capability but with a design goal of interoperability rather than the lack
of it.
paul
