Is it time to consider FCoE for your organization?
When Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) arrived in the IT industry (mainly storage network) several years ago, many experts expected companies to adopt it into their business. However, it didn’t happen due to several factors including limited cost advantages and organizational disruption. But now, experts are starting to see the adoption taking place which leads [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  7:17 PM
FCoE, Storage, Storage network

Infiniband storage network using SRP
Hi, I’d like a “howto” on configuring SRP initiators and targets. I’m using Centos/Xen hypervisors and will build my own storage servers. I’m using Infiniband cards with Mellanox MT25408 chipset. I’m familiar with Linux but unsure of exactly what I need to get this up and running. I dont want to use IP or iSCSI [...]

Answer Question   |  March 1, 2011  11:01 AM
Hypervisor, Infiniband, iSCSI, Linux administration, SAN, SRP, Storage network, Xen

Configuring local stroage network
on my XP machine, I have 2 NICs (one connected to a GB network and on only to a switch connected to only 2 networked disks [Ximeta Netdisks]). On the GB connection (my local area connection) I am running all the standard protocols and on the other NIC (my local storage network) I am running [...]

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2008  3:35 PM
NAS, NIC, Storage network, TCP/IP, Windows XP, Ximeta Netdisks