Today, MS and Intel annouced the Windows 2008 R2 iSCSI reaches 1 million IPS on a single 10GbE port performance. It means that “There is no server I/O bottleneck. If you are going with an iSCSI SAN use the native infrastructure built into the server, OS and adapter. If you are deciding between iSCSI and FC, know that at the very least the performance on the client side is a wash. Server-side ease-of-use and cost if unquestionably in ISCSI’s favor. “
The question then goes to the comparision between iSCSI and FCoE. FCoE requires DCB (Data Center Bridging; aka DCE or CEE). However iSCSI does not require that.
As iSCSI has comparable performance with FCoE, do we really need FCoE? Here is Dell enigneer recommend.
