> > Hello, > > I tend to disagree. A correctly designed SAN (using dual Fabric among > other things) is a lot more stable and has a lot better performance than > any NAS (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI) solution. One other thing that also needs to > be correctly configured to have a stable SAN infrastructure is the > servers on it (Multipathing, partition alignment, queue depth, ...) > according to the storage vendors recommendation. > LUN expansion/shrink is storage vendor specific, some can not (netapp > apparently) but others can. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Regards, > -- > Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> > *************************************************** > This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! > *************************************************** >
Hello Dan, Thank you so much. As mentioned earlier I am a new to SAN, and the approach we are taking given our limited budget is to purchase an IBM with sufficient hdd bays and PCI bus, plugging a PCIe raid card as well as an HBA (or two as you mentioned), and installing SCST or ESOS, and going from their. Would you be kind enough to give more details about your SAN setup in respect to HBA, raid adapters, software etc... I understand that you could be using a black box from HP etc.., but just a general idea. Kind Regards, Nick.
