From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 02:39:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5BFB116A41F for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:39:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF4043D46 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:39:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.natserv.net [127.0.0.1]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3271D7DBA; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:39:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <43530EAF.1010300@stringsutils.com> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:38:39 -0400 From: Francisco Reyes User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050911) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20051016183048.L995@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20051016183048.L995@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: If I want to hook FreeBSD to a SAN ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:39:56 -0000 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..