our reason btw was to cut down on cabling/switch costs, it starts to add up when you consider how many blades get eated by 1gb copper. going to DL580s amd a few hp chassis. A chassis used to eat nearly 64 copper 1gb and 32 fiber channel connections. on FCoE/CNAs, we're literally talking 4 x 10gb cables (16 blades).
David Sent from an email server. On Feb 22, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Pierce Lynch <p.ly...@netappliant.com> wrote: >> FCoE was until very recently the only way to do centralized block storage >> to the Cisco UCS server blades, so I'd imagine it's quite widely adopted. >> That said, we don't run FCoE outside of the UCS <black box> - its uplinks >> to the SAN are just regular FC. > > Agreed, very much the only implementation I have come across FCoE > installations for is Cisco UCS chassis. Personally, it's not something that I > have seen regularly adopted as of yet outside proprietary hardware > configurations such as UCS deployments. > > Certainly also keen to understand as to any other use cases and deployments > others have implemented using full-blown FCoE. > > Kind regards, > > Pierce Lynch > >
