iSCSI is a direct concurrent of the SAN architecture roughtly the same philosophy (block protocol over the net) but much cheaper than SAN because the net is ethernet for iSCSI but FC for SAN
and major SAN reseller are Solaris and other big buisness like that. to avoid to concurrent themself, they don't communicate a lot on iSCSI
Jerry wrote:
I've been testing iSCSI on windows systems and the performance/reliability seems to be good. I was wondering if anyone knows why Solaris, or any of the commercial unix vendors haven't jumped on board with this. I noticed a cisco initiator for Solaris, but I wonder if it even works with the netapp. If you call Sun, they are kinda clueless on iSCSI and don't really elaborate much in my experience.
This is especially annoying since I notice linux has some iscsi stuff.
Any thoughts?
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