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Re: [Xen-users] using Linux as a front-end controller for a SAN?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] using Linux as a front-end controller for a SAN?
From: John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:10:08 -0400
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I hope someone can shed some light on this for me. Has anyone tried,
or have experience with, setting up a Linux server to manage a few NAS
devices and thus make them all visible to the clients as one large
SAN?

Kind of off-topic for a Xen list, but yes, this is a common thing to do (and it's essentially what the major SAN vendors do). See Openfiler, for example.

John




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John Madden
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Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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