Comments on: Universal Storage: understanding the hype. http://wikibon.org/blog/universal-storage-understanding-the-hype/ Breaking Research Boundaries Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:56:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: paulp http://wikibon.org/blog/universal-storage-understanding-the-hype/comment-page-1/#comment-341 paulp Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:44:28 +0000 http://wikibon.org/blog/?p=1366#comment-341 Universal Storage or Unified Storage as NetApp refers to it, is to me is an essential part of consolidating storage - I mean thats the concept of SAN's (taking protocol out of the mix for a moment). No hiding what system I am a fan of.<br><br>Regarding the FC comment, how does it really matter if the protocol is supported, it can be connected to FC devices, starts and ends with FC - has FC connections internally for connecting disks etc? To suggest that a unified storage device is not real FC is like suggesting that a FC HBA is not a (real) FC device because it has lots of copper in it - In fact, in a local FC SAN infrastructure, the signals traverse copper over much greater lengths than FC!!! But we call that FC.<br><br><br><br>the most of the Universal Storage or Unified Storage as NetApp refers to it, is to me is an essential part of consolidating storage – I mean thats the concept of SAN's (taking protocol out of the mix for a moment). No hiding what system I am a fan of.

Regarding the FC comment, how does it really matter if the protocol is supported, it can be connected to FC devices, starts and ends with FC – has FC connections internally for connecting disks etc? To suggest that a unified storage device is not real FC is like suggesting that a FC HBA is not a (real) FC device because it has lots of copper in it – In fact, in a local FC SAN infrastructure, the signals traverse copper over much greater lengths than FC!!! But we call that FC.

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]]> By: paulp http://wikibon.org/blog/universal-storage-understanding-the-hype/comment-page-1/#comment-93 paulp Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:44:28 +0000 http://wikibon.org/blog/?p=1366#comment-93 Universal Storage or Unified Storage as NetApp refers to it, is to me is an essential part of consolidating storage - I mean thats the concept of SAN's (taking protocol out of the mix for a moment). No hiding what system I am a fan of.<br><br>Regarding the FC comment, how does it really matter if the protocol is supported, it can be connected to FC devices, starts and ends with FC - has FC connections internally for connecting disks etc? To suggest that a unified storage device is not real FC is like suggesting that a FC HBA is not a (real) FC device because it has lots of copper in it - In fact, in a local FC SAN infrastructure, the signals traverse copper over much greater lengths than FC!!! But we call that FC.<br><br><br><br>the most of the Universal Storage or Unified Storage as NetApp refers to it, is to me is an essential part of consolidating storage – I mean thats the concept of SAN's (taking protocol out of the mix for a moment). No hiding what system I am a fan of.

Regarding the FC comment, how does it really matter if the protocol is supported, it can be connected to FC devices, starts and ends with FC – has FC connections internally for connecting disks etc? To suggest that a unified storage device is not real FC is like suggesting that a FC HBA is not a (real) FC device because it has lots of copper in it – In fact, in a local FC SAN infrastructure, the signals traverse copper over much greater lengths than FC!!! But we call that FC.

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