iSCSI: The rising enterprise star
“We looked at extending Fibre Channel to all our customers,” he explains, “but it would have cost 10 times as much as iSCSI. Then there is the skill-set issue. No member of our 24/7 staff is afraid to get on these [iSCSI] devices. I don’t think this would be true for Fibre Channel.”
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EqualLogic went head to head with the Clariion CX Series from storage giant EMC in a final, proof-of-concept test at Safeway Insurance Group. Mike Leather, network services manager there, says, “Even after sending out three teams, the EMC folks could not show me the performance stats I needed, so we went with the PS line from EqualLogic.”
Leather needed better performance on his primary business system, a Microsoft SQL Server cluster. The I/O to the system’s DAS was the bottleneck, which immediately suggested a SAN solution. “We looked at Fibre Channel, but iSCSI is so much cheaper,” Leather says, “and you don’t need to buy any HBAs or Fibre Channel switches.”
Source:
Mark Leon
Infoworld
February 26, 2007
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