> US Date/Time: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 – 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
> Link to Register (Plattform: BrightTALK)
> Presenters: Fred Knight, NetApp, John Kim, SNIA ESF Chair, Mellanox, Alex McDonald, SNIA ESF Vice Chair, NetApp
About the Webcast: In the enterprise, block storage typically handles the most critical applications such as database, ERP, product development, and tier-1 virtualization. The dominant connectivity option for this has long been Fibre Channel SAN (FC-SAN), but recently many customers and block storage vendors have turned to iSCSI instead. FC-SAN is known for its reliability, lossless nature, 2x FC speed bumps, and carefully tested interoperability between vendors. iSCSI is known for running on ubiquitous Ethernet networks, 10x Ethernet speed bumps, and supporting commodity networking hardware from many vendors. As the storage world moves to more flash and other non-volatile memory, more cloud, and more virtualization (or more containers), it’s time to revisit one of the great IT debates: Should you deploy Fibre Channel or iSCSI? Attend this SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum webcast to learn:
- Will Fibre Channel or iSCSI deliver faster performance? Does it depend on the workload?
- How is the wire speed race going between FC and iSCSI? Does anyone actually run iSCSI on 100GbE? When will 128Gb Fibre Channel arrive?
- Can any server or storage array actually support more than 32Gb/s or 40Gb/s speeds?
- Do Linux, Windows, or hypervisors have a preference?
- Is one really easier to install and manage or are they just different?
- How does the new NVMe over Fabrics protocol affect this debate?