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FCoE: The iSCSI Replacement?

It took a long time to build up momentum but iSCSI made SAN storage practical for the midrange customer. Now, according to this ZDNet Blog report, just as iSCSI has taken market share from fiber channel vendors, it's now time for dedicated FC networks to take a look at FCoE: Fiber Channel over Ethernet.

"To that end, Cisco, NetApp, and VMware have jointly released an end-to-end certified FCoE solution for datacenter virtualization. This collaboration will allow datacenters to deploy almost turnkey solutions for FCoE combined with storage hardware and networking equipment. These types of solutions should result in a significant reduction in the capital expenditure needed to implement fiber channel storage networking solutions, and with the VMware certification we should see more vendors releasing FCoE solutions designed to work in virtualized environments."