On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote:
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.
Bill
That's exactly what I had in mind :) Netapp has something similar but I forgot what it's called. I just don't like buying into,and being bound to, proprietary systems. And I don't see the worth in buying one only to find that it doesn't really suit my needs or work as well as I hoped it would. With Linux (or for that matter Solaris / BSD) I know I could at least put together something that will suit my needs, and not the developers ideas of what they think I want