[Info-vax] OpenVMS and FCOE or iscsi on NetApp

[Richard B]

On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 11:34:48 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-01-08 15:52:41 +0000, Richard B said:
> 
> > Does anyone know if OpenVMS supports either FCOE or ISCSI on NetApp?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Not unless you can find a controller that pretends to be an 
> OpenVMS-supported controller on the host-side and provides FCoE or 
> iSCSI on the back-side.
> 
> And I'm not aware of any.
> 
> OpenVMS has little support for connections to modern storage.  
> Traditional Fibre Channel host bus adapters are pretty much the extent 
> of that support.
> 
> There was an now-long-withdrawn iSCSI beta back around the millennium, 
> but it wasn't particularly robust nor particularly efficient nor 
> particularly fast nor particularly integrated, and I'd be surprised if 
> it still works.  If you can find it.
> 
> VSI folks are well aware of FCoE, iSCSI and RDMA/RoCEv2, though they've 
> some work queued ahead of that.  And I'd tend to doubt they're 
> seriously looking at adding FCoE.  iSCSI and RDMA/RoCEv2 are on the 
> ~current roadmap.
> 
> 
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Thanks Stephen, I didn't think so.