[NTLUG:Discuss] Mid Hudson Valley LUG here!

[Chris Cox]

Robert Pearson wrote:
> Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>>>Porkchop wrote: 
>>>
>>>... We've been contacted by coraid who namedropped
>>>the "North Dallas Linux Users Group"
>>
>>I thought the presentation was very good and it's certainly
>>a marvel of technology. 
> 
> 
> 
> Is anyone on the NTLUG list using the Coraid product?
> Has anyone seen a working installation?
> If anyone has evaluated the Coraid product and not deployed it; what
> were the main one or two reasons?
> 
> It looks like an IP SAN to me since it will do block operations.

No IP stack.... so no need for TOE, etc.  Simpler.  Uses
ATAoE.

So.. similar to ISCSI, but NOT routeable.. so strictly local attached.
But still similar in flexibility apart from that.