Unless you’re “in the know”, terms like “layer 2″ can seem mysterious, making it all the more plausible when someone touts the benefits. It seems logical: “Bare-metal” communication must be better, faster, and cheaper than higher-level “everything over IP” approaches, right? But it’s not quite that simple.
Is this the year of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the LAN?
January 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
A number of switch vendors have announced the 10Gb Ethernet is the THING for 2010. Really?
Microsoft and Intel Pushing iSCSI Performance Limits
January 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
Wire-Speed 10 Gb iSCSI, Anyone?
March 6, 2009 By 5 Comments
Along with many tidbits about storage advances in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, this WinHEC presentation by Microsoft’s Suzanne Morgan demonstrated that the combination of the Windows iSCSI Initiator and NetApp FAS 3070 filer could saturate a 10 Gb Ethernet link. How many other storage arrays can do that?