Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a front-end controller for a SAN?

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Hi all,

I hope someone can shed some light on this for me. Has anyone tried, or have experience with, setting up a Linux server to manage a few NAS devices and thus make them all visible to the clients as one large SAN?

I don't know about Linux solutions for this, but I did see what appeared to be an interesting solution for this at a WMware meeting recently. Falconstor Software virtualizes SAN storage in much the same way VMware virtualizes servers. My guess is it isn't cheap, but reinventing wheels can be expensive too.

http://www.falconstor.com/

Bill