In reply to Pete Welcher.

Some really good points. I will say that I've known quite a few EMC people who understood what a FLOGI is, though, to be fair. :)

I really like your suggestion in 3). I think that anything that is "Software-Defined" worth its salt should alloe the capability of having the kind of 'nerd knobs' for performance tweaking, of course. But what you're talking about seems to be a few steps beyond that. For example, "reliability" itself is a category within which there are several criteria. Something defined by software should definitely be able to adhere to and monitor those types of criteria, without question.

Thanks for the reply!