Choosing Between FC and iSCSI SAN
Date Posted: August 01, 2008 01:01 AM
Author: Mel Beckman
Dear Doctor, We're moving to server virtualization and are planning for a Storage Area Network (SAN) array to provide disk storage for all our virtual machines. My problem is choosing between the two SAN technologies, Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI. I know iSCSI is newer, but FC is 4 Gbps versus iSCSI's 1 Gbps. FC costs more, but I don't want to saddle our virtualization effort with a slow storage solution unnecessarily. We will be running mission-critical database applications on the SAN, and performance must equal what we see with native hardware. Is there any clear right answer to this question?

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