Are you searching for a “free” NetApp? J

Well, more seriously answer.

You can install a simulator on any disk device in a Linux box, you can create a mount point to your external disks and the install there the sim but the real problem is that the sim creates its own virtual disks with a maximun size of 1024 MB each, so you can also “theoretically” have a 500 G storage for you sim but composed of hundreds of virtual disks and dozens of raid groups to be assembled in aggregates…

It’s a simulator that can do everything (except FCP) but do not exagerate with its usage in a production environment J

If you want a NAS or an iSCSI SAN on you external storage under Linux there are several free software for Linux that can do the job.

Da: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] Per conto di Johnson, James A [HDS]
Inviato: venerdì 11 gennaio 2008 15.54
A: toasters@mathworks.com
Oggetto: Simulator - Disk Array

Can a simulator be used for real disk? E.g. I build a linux box and attach 36 external disks to it, would the simulator be able to see that storage? If so, how? Does anyone have instruction on how to do this?

Thanks,

James