FCoE and VMotion - the Perfect Relationship
Just read the following article published by Mario Apicella from Infoworld. Mario’s article espouses the value of FCoE in providing storage connectivity ubiquitously to a host. When coupled with an application such as VMotion that demands perfect state synchronization not having to move a huge runtime image speeds the move. Having all of the servers connected to a common infrastructures overcomes the addressing and segmented connectivity challenges imposed by a SAN island architecture.
Mario- appreciate your testing, and validation that what we have here is a technology that is not only easy to use and real, but is also adding value to virtualization and VMotion.
dg
Posted by Douglas Gourlay at 11:58PM PST
Brad Hedlund Aug 14, 2008
Doug,
In addition to the virtualization advantage perfectly described in Mario’s article, it also doesn’t hurt that VMotion now has 10G of bandwidth available to copy the VM state from point A to point B. A big advantage over a dedicated 1G link commonly used today.
Brad