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