[CentOS] using Linux as a front-end controller for a SAN?
Rudi Ahlers
Rudi at SoftDux.comTue Oct 12 18:00:16 UTC 2010
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Bill Campbell <centos at 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. > > http://www.falconstor.com/ > > 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 -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532
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