Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:38:39 -0400 From: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If I want to hook FreeBSD to a SAN ... Message-ID: <43530EAF.1010300@stringsutils.com> In-Reply-To: <20051016183048.L995@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20051016183048.L995@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Pointers to any web pages that are good for this sort of thing, > especially as concerns FreeBSD, would be greatly appreciated ... Not sure if is along the lines of what you need, but but a few years back I found a company that allowed multiple machines to connec to a box and all the machines would just see it as a SCSI device. You would allocate how much space each attached machine could see. What are you looking for? Share space amongst many machines? Likely a box that supports NFS. Have a single device where to store all the data, but not necessarily share data amongst machines? What I describe above may be a good choice. Also wouldn't a big raid connected to a FreeBSD machine do the trick? Would safe you lots of money. Anything that has the letters "SAN", "NAS" has a premiun. Also are you looking for SAN or NAS My understanding of those... SAN - multiple machines attached to a device. The device just appears as a disk. No info sharing. NAS - multiple machines see a device and can share information. The device supports different communication methods such as NFS, SMB, etc..
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