11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
4:51 p.m.
On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:29 PM, John Finigan wrote:
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
iSCSI makes up (in a clumsy way) for a lack of a
"first class citizen"
network file protocol in NT. Since you can't run SQL Server over
something
like NFS, it is about the only way to get it on a networked storage
device.
And if you want some of the nice "storage virtualization" features
like
volume snaps and clones, you pretty much want network storage.
Eh. (and this is WAY OT) iSCSI is kinda interesting; I've been
working with it quite a bit lately. It is a poor-man's replacement
for FibreChannel, nothing more. The only other possible advantage is
that it can be routed over a WAN, and anyone who tries to do that
with low-level-access storage needs their head examined anyway.
So...It's neat, it works, it's almost universally supported (even
VMS has an iSCSI stack) it's reasonably interoperable, and when it
grows up, it wants to be FibreChannel.
-Dave