iSCSI Storage for the future?

Question - If Fibre Channel SANs are the present are iSCSI SAN's the future of storage area networks?

Facts:

• iSCSI is preferred over Fibre Channel and outperforms Fiber Channel SANs when using small and mid-range servers with limited data transfers
• Fiber Channel SANs are superior when compared to iSCSI SANs when large database transfers and input/output operations take place.
• Ethernet is the most simplistic part of iSCSI. It runs on Ethernet. The odds are good that you and your coworkers are familiar with Ethernet—positive and negative points. With iSCSI, you can rely on inexpensive, commodity hardware and can get your SAN running quickly and easily.
• In most iSCSI equipment, the snapshot feature is included in the base price of the product. Snapshots provide significant data protection in that they can protect your data between backups.
• Replication - optional
• Scalability - depends on the manufacturer

iSCSI SAN technologies are improving and will soon be available to handle the high Input/Output operations of database transfers that are better supported Fiber Channel SANs.

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Gavin
Sunstar Company, Inc.