[Info-vax] fibrechannel

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4f6d7c50$0$294$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, Roy Omond
<roy at omond.net> writes: 

> On 23/03/2012 19:35, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> > Having recently obtained some new (for me) hardware, I'm wondering if it
> > is worth the trouble (now, that means mainly the question whether it can
> > be done quickly) to have connections other than ethernet (which
> > currently carries everything) among the machines.  Is it simply a matter
> > of sticking in a card and having it just work out of the box or does one
> > have a lot of configuration to do?
> 
> I hope you realise that SCS (cluster communications) does not use fibre
> channel as a medium ...

That's why I'm asking.  Up until now, I have never used anything but 
ethernet (though various kinds) for any sort of cluster communication.  
The questions are: what is possible and what makes sense.