This is a little like "NAT" for fibre channel. It also requires sophisticated cards and switches.
----- 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
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
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
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