FCoE investment: worth the upgrade or holding off?
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JennyMack
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FCoE investment: worth the upgrade or holding off?
FCoE, Fibre channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Storage hardware
Do you use mostly traditional Fibre Channel or FCoE devices in your organization, or a balance of both? What are the contributing factors? What would be the tipping point that would cause you to switch from using mostly one type over to the other?

Also see: Will 2011 be the year of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)?
ASKED: Aug 18 2009  8:37 PM GMT
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We use traditional FC as it has lower latency, and quicker timeouts which result is quicker retries.

If we needed to send FC data from one CoLo to another we'd switch to FCoE, within the CoLo we'll keep to the native FC.
Last Answered: Aug 18 2009  11:29 PM GMT by Mrdenny   46765 pts.
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