On Oct 21, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Nicolas Jungers wrote: > On 2012-10-19 15:19, Ed Cashin wrote: >> AoE use is accelerating rapidly, and iSCSI persists because even >> though it's not the best fit for same-LAN data storage, folks can >> still get it to work if they are willing and able to deal with the >> complexity, sacrifice the performance, and don't need the kind of >> scaling that virtualization and cloud deployments require. > > I don't think it's a realistic view. I think AoE missed its window of > opportunity and is now dying. As Tracy said, it's ridiculously easy to > setup an iSCSI system. It's a pain to get the AoE target up to date in > any distro, and the initiator, while working, is far from being a well > behaving component. Tracy had a good point in that there needs to be more work done to help Linux distros to integrate AoE technology, so that Linux admins have a smooth experience using it. AoE was probably too far ahead of its time in 2004 and is now coming into its time. A lot of the adoption lately has been very large scale special-purpose or enterprise installations, and not all of that has been on Linux. The need driving the CTOs of these highly competitive companies to adopt AoE-based technology is based on real-world trends that really can't be stopped, not based on emotion. The folks on the aoetools-discuss list won't necessarily know about these AoE-based deployments. But it's a good thing that Coraid is contributing actively to open source now, and it should help to ease its adoption on Linux-based architectures. It's open source, though, so although Coraid can be expected to take the lead, there are alternatives to complaining. ;) -- Ed Cashin ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Aoetools-discuss mailing list Aoetools-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aoetools-discuss
