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<<On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 18:10:56 -0600, "Aaron Wohl" <freebsd@soith.com> said:

> Anyone using a storage area network with freebsd (or linux)?  Anything to
> recommend as working well or to stay way from?  

We have two SANs with FreeBSD and Debian servers on them, sharing (and
booting from) a generic RAID array (Mylex controller IIRC).  The HBA
is a Qlogic QLA-2200.

Things to stay away from:

- Pure FC-AL topologies
- Windows on the same loop as anything else
- Storage devices that can only be managed through a proprietary
Windows application

-GAWollman