Sometimes I have to wonder what folks are smoking…and why they aren’t sharing. A piece I ran across via an email link today, published in Infoworld, is case in point.
Some droid at ESG made some observations that Virtualization (aka LUN aggregation) and iSCSI don’t mix. Apparently, DataCore hasn’t paid the fellow enough to check out their wares.
“If you’re considering iSCSI and virtualization is on your storage road map, however, you may want to think again — at least for the time being. The management tools that take advantage of storage virtualization to aggregate storage subsystems across a network are not yet mature enough to handle iSCSI SANs, says Brian Garrett, lab director at the Enterprise Strategy Group, a market research firm.
The article goes on to suggest that “today’s storage-management software can’t handle iSCSI SANs well. For example, iSCSI doesn’t have a single facility to provide global names, as Fibre Channel does.”
They cite the small install base of iSCSI as a factor in the lack of management and virtualization software.
This whole thing is absolute bullshit. We have iSCSI in our labs. We have virtualized it with DataCore and we have run multiple management packages, backup software packages, data copy packages, etc. across the volumes. I don’t see the problem.
Anybody care to take sides in this?
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I think you’ll find that part of the problem is that DataCore has largely gone silent in terms of marketing its products to analysts like ESG. And ESG, like all paid analysts only mention the products from companies that are paying them, so until IBM SVC or the EMC product (yeah, I’m having a laugh
support iSCSI virtualization it will continue to “not exist”
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