From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 5 12:26:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from Thanatos.Shenton.Org (a3.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DB2137B48A for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:26:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30765 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Feb 2002 20:26:20 -0000 To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Anyone using FalconStor virtual NAS/SAN? From: Chris Shenton Date: 05 Feb 2002 15:26:20 -0500 Message-ID: <873d0fd6ab.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Talked to a vendor recently who's building something NetApp like based on FalconStor's product. (The NetApp won't do what he needs for distributed database storage). I hadn't heard of it but it looks pretty interesting. See http://www.falconstor.com/. It appears to collect IP- or FC-connected back-end storage, then offer it as a virtualized service to client machines over IP or FC. The online product description indicate it runs on a few variants of Lunix, and has client machine drivers for DOS, Lunix, and Solaris. No BSD for either the server platform nor client drivers. Bummer. Seems like an ideal system in a decent-sized ISP environment or good sized server shop. And I expect BSD's superior networking wouldn't slow it down as much as the Lunix stack. Just curious if any BSDers have played with it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message