On 01/22/11 6:46 AM, Nastou Panagiotis wrote:
Hello,
I have a Rocks cluster based on Centos 5.2. Can this Centos version support a Storage Area Network?
yes, as long as the host bus adapters are supported. pretty much all major FC cards have good RHEL/CentOS support, as do most all server grade ethernet adapters for iSCSI applications.
What kind of software do I need for installing and managing it?
depends on the SAN. SAN vendors generally provide the management tools suitable for their system.
there have been a vast number of patches and fixes to CentOS 5 since update 2 was released (currently at 5.6), you really should consider patching to current, via `yum update`. Undoubtably some of the fixes improve stability and functionality of the iSCSI initiator, fiberchannel bonding, etc.