 Douglas Gourlay - Cisco Data Center Business Unit Senior Director of Marketing and Product Management, confirmed that Cisco is not getting rid of the Cisco MDS 9500 Storage Director in favor of the Cisco Nexus 7000 in his recent Cisco Data Center Blog entry: |
FCoE, FibreChannel, Ethernet, Eagles, and Parrots
Gourlay opines that:
FibreChannel is here to stay.
I can guarantee 10 years from now FibreChannel will still exist, and still be deployed actively in our customers networks.
It's a good protocol, it works, it works well, and it will continue to solve some network problems that even by that time I do not think Ethernet and FCoE will have evolved to deliver.
Customers that I have talked to really don't like changing their network equipment out every 2-3 years, most like equipment that has legs.
FCoE will happen.
Of this I am certain.
But I also believe that the pragmatic adoption path of FCoE will be first on the host, then over a period of time switch to switch, and then eventually to the target.
Why?
| 1. | Hosts get churned faster than Targets. |
This means there is more data to protect and safeguard.
This is GREAT for storage.
The entire Storage market is predicated on 15-20% of the hosts connecting to the SAN.
Fast-forward 3-5 years and imagine a world with 100% of the servers connected to the SAN.
Pretty powerful!
But we felt it was also important to not require yet another director to get there.
If another director won't get there, what will get there?
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