Hi,

thanks for your hint. I will give it a try and perhaps there is a solution without having to use FC-SAN.

But if not i am still interested if "simple SAN" provides cheap switches :D

Regards

Jochen

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From: Davies,Matt [mailto:MDAVIES@generalatlantic.com] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:25 PM To: Willeke, Jochen; toasters@mathworks.com 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

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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

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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

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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