Comments on: HP and Intel Help Open the FCoE Market

By: Cisco is Ready for the Next-Generation Network, Are You? « Wikibon Blog

Cisco is Ready for the Next-Generation Network, Are You? « Wikibon Blog — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:20:37 +0000

[...] use it rather than buying separate infrastructure. It is not that FCoE will be free (see my post on Intel’s Open FCoE for more on this), but the cost of adding a license or line card should be much less than separate infrastructure. [...]

By: HP and Intel Help Open the FCoE Market | MemeConnect: QLogic

HP and Intel Help Open the FCoE Market | MemeConnect: QLogic — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:07:47 +0000

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By: Technology Short Take #11 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:02:11 +0000

[...] speaks out here, Chad Sakac weighed in here, Ivan Pepelnjak offers his opinions here, and Wikibon here) have already thrown in. Instead, I’ll take the “Show me” approach. Intel has [...]

By: stu

stu — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:44:00 +0000

Thanks for the clarifications Calvin.

By: Etherealmind

Etherealmind — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:15:00 +0000

I agree. But all the so called ‘storage experts’ have been told to buy hardware accelerated CNA’s that have been blessed/validated by the storage vendors so they feel FUD when you tell them about burning CPU cycles.

In fact, very few servers today are running the CPUs at load, because the storage I/O is slow. I find that ironic.

By: Why Open-FCoE is important | RayOnStorage Blog

Why Open-FCoE is important | RayOnStorage Blog — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:03:59 +0000

[...] did a great post on FCoE market dynamics as [...]

By: IT Guy

IT Guy — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:50:00 +0000

I love how there is a claim that all of these CPU cycles are being burned. That’s what they said about iSCSI and now no one uses iSCSI HW offloads on standard x86 servers (only value is on Power/RISC). The fact is Demartek just released a report showing all of the QLogic, Emulex, and Intel adapters and the bottom line is performance was about the same. The CPU utilization in most average workload cases was about 5% on a single core. When IT shops are buying servers that have 2 sockets at 4 and 6 core CPUs they should hardly worry about CPU utilization to do FCoE offloads in SW. Intel scales their processors way faster than an offload chip can keep up and their controller is truly stateless. With the Sandy Bridge server processors around the corner this argument is pure rubbish. IT managers will want to do it for free and want the lowest cost solution and simplicity.

By: QLogic Earnings Beat the Street, Big Plans for 2011 in FCoE and Beyond | SiliconANGLE

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:10:02 +0000

[...] Miniman also has a thorough article on QLogic’s position within the HP FCoE story, which you can read here. [...]

By: Etherealmind

Etherealmind — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:31:00 +0000

The very fact that Cisco now support iSCSI boot for their UCS servers should tell you a lot about the future of FCoE. Intel had to give it away for free for people to be interested.

Lets not forget that this implementation burns CPU cycles as a software implementation – which is to Intel’s advantage and leaves competitive room for QLogic and Emulex. No market disruption here.

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Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:08:19 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Stuart Miniman, Gerry Van Zandt. Gerry Van Zandt said: RT @stu: [blog] HP and Intel Help Open the FCoE Market http://bit.ly/hPE1Wn << nice overview of market situation & players [...]