> Could this "Virtual San" be some modification of the Shared/Byte File
> System
> server? 

Biggest gotcha there is that the IUCV protocol that drives those SFS/BFS
servers isn't published anywhere, which would make it hard to implement
for 
non-IBM systems or mostly OCO systems, eg Linux or z/OS. 

> With IPGATE, that could even be used across LPARs via hypersockets
> and
> across physical machines via other TCPIP connections.

Someday it'd be real nice if IPGATE was folded into the base VM. It's
far too useful a tool not to be available to everyone. 

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