I'm pretty sure you can use FC to the VMs if you use virtual ports or NPIV.
http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/magLogin/1,291245,sid35_gci1228666,00....
This is a little like "NAT" for fibre channel. It also requires sophisticated cards and switches.
Fred
----- Original Message ---- From: "Davies,Matt" MDAVIES@generalatlantic.com To: "Willeke, Jochen" Jochen.Willeke@wincor-nixdorf.com; toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 6:24:50 AM Subject: RE: simple SAN?!
On the VMware side, as far as I understand you can only use FC to the physical machine, not to a virtual machine, as the VM's do not support FC.
I believe you can still use VCB with Iscsi, it just needs a bit more scripting, I would check out the VMware discussion groups on the VMware website, I have always found them very helpful.
Cheers
Matt
From: Willeke, Jochen [mailto:Jochen.Willeke@wincor-nixdorf.com] Sent: 23 November 2006 11:07 To: Davies,Matt; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: simple SAN?!
We already use ISCSI, but we aer thinking about VMWare and VMWare has some nice features (e.g. VCB) which need an FC-SAN.
Thanks anyway
Jochen
From: Davies,Matt [mailto:MDAVIES@generalatlantic.com] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 11:59 AM To: Willeke, Jochen; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: simple SAN?!
If you are looking at low cost san, I would go Iscsi, as long as everything you need on Iscsi is on Gig ethernet ports, it should work fine.
Cheers
Matt
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Willeke, Jochen Sent: 23 November 2006 10:11 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: simple SAN?!
Hi,
as we use not too much SAN at our site i am not really used to this topic. Yesterday i read an article about "simple SAN". "Simple SAN" seems to mean as an plug-n-play solution. But what about the components espacially the SAN-switches?
Do we see really new (and cheap :D) SAN-switches or only old products "reassembled" as a solution for small companies.
Regards
Jochen
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