QUESTION POSED ON: 13 January 2003
Today's SAN virtualization startups provide solutions for managing and virtualizing storage from the network but they don't seem to be implementing caches on these switches. How are they coping with latency issues and how much of an effect does this have on performance of these systems? Having to route write operations all the way to the end storage systems will add significant overhead on these operations.
Also, IP SANs are coming so what advantages/disadvantages do you see by moving storage access to IP networks? I have been in the storage industry for 11 years and to me it seems that IP SAN will resolve a lot of the issues that exists in FC-SANs such as cost, security, WAN access and management. What are your thoughts on this?
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