----- "Michael Green" <mishagr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Christian Svensson > <christian.svens...@cristie.se> wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > With Quantum DXi (VTL) can you do the same thing. The DXi has both a > VTL part and a NAS Disk part and both have De-Dup working. > > The NAS part can you connect as local disk via iSCSI. > > iSCSI is not NAS. It's SAN. > NAS is either NFS or CIFS. > Unless I'm missing something... > >
Yup - iSCSI is block based and not file based, so it's more of a SAN IMHO, but there's another school of thought that says anything that can run over your normal TCP/IP network isn't a 'proper' SAN as it's not dedicated to storage, it's 'Network Attached'. Nice crossover, shall we say anything of FC/IP, iFCP, or even IPFC...? I might be wrong as I'm not too experienced with the DXi, but I thought that it could dole out storage as NAS (NFS or CIFS), or act as a VTL as an iSCSI/Fiberchannel visible 'tape' device rather than local disk?
