From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 14:03:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B3816A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:03:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdanderson.org [143.111.251.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3EE43D4C for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:03:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from syjef@mdanderson.org) Received: by jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 769779B7; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:03:06 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Organization: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:02:53 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <1211811F9D1B0F42867C256834C13A800BFE88C5@stracn01> <20050124202144.8917D43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050124202144.8917D43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2121222.ABxt0Do7s3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501250803.05306.syjef@mdanderson.org> cc: "Wood, Bradley" cc: Oliver Leitner Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SANs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:03:17 -0000 --nextPart2121222.ABxt0Do7s3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 24 January 2005 14:16, Oliver Leitner wrote: > Ok, im not fully into the programs involved with SAN technology, maybe you > may give a few names of programs youre used to, so i could look for em? > > Greetings > Oliver Leitner > Technical Staff > http://www.shells.at > > On Monday 24 January 2005 15:46, Wood, Bradley wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am wanting to access a SAN from FreeBSD. Is there any support for this > > to you knowledge? If so, can anyone recommend a hardware solution that > > worked well? Additionally, if anyone is aware of hosting firms that > > provide and support FreeBSD nodes co-lo managed but also provide per > > gigabyte pricing on SAN-accessible storage I would be most interested. > > He's probably more interested in hardware. Is the SAN fibre channel, iSCSI= ? I=20 believe there is support from FreeBSD for both types, but I have never trie= d=20 it with FreeBSD. Also, you have to look at whether or not the storage serv= er=20 supports a given OS. In the case of the IBM Shark there is a list of=20 supported platforms that you have to select from when adding a new host to= =20 the configuration. Selecting the wrong type can lead to data access=20 problems. On the other hand, some storage servers may not care. Do carefu= l=20 research, but remember that probably no storage servers support FreeBSD=20 officially. =2D-=20 Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX=20 --nextPart2121222.ABxt0Do7s3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB9lGZqUvQmqp7omYRAq39AKCKjTHVDWLYj/hHpiG/k7VSuYvwOACeLbzF F9kqVShhzc7j85eidepytcY= =+wpB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2121222.ABxt0Do7s3--