Is this any help? http://www.emc.com/microsites/clariion-support/pdf/ax45_software_overview.pdf
The unit that's described is managed via a web interface - meaning, that like a lot of network-attached devices these days, it has a builtin webserver (I've got a webcam whose server is the size of a matchbox). Webapps, of course, are so intuitively obvious that even an idiot can use them (snarf), so things like sample screens and tutorials are sadly missing from this document. They're calling this a "SAN", but by my terminology, it's actually NAS (Netword Attached Storage). Which I define as raw storage without filesystem support. Not as raw as simply presenting the physical disks, but about 1 level up: you can carve up the managed physical disks and present them as virtual disks or LUNs. You'd typically attach a SAN head(s) to some or all of these disks and LUNs in order to present a traditional fileserver (Windows CIFS, NFS, or both). Which is what the Win2K machine has apparently been doing up to now. Some DBMS's support a more bare-metal approach, however, and would access the virtual storage directly. The 2 primary means of connection to the device are via Fibre Channel and iSCSI, and there are manuals covering both on the website where the software overview manual resides. There is support in Red Hat Enterprise 4 and 5, but I'm not sure if the drivers are stock or have to come from EMC. Unfortunately, their PDF's do really rude things to my Adobe Reader app, and I'm getting tired of having to kill and restart the web browser to keep reading. On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 15:04 -0400, Marshall wrote: > After this weekend our print server will be Linux with a couple of exceptions > - the file share is looking more complicated - the shares are run off an EMC > AX4-5 and are still being served by a win2k3 box. I have a decent server I > can use, dual dualcore xeon 3ghz, 6gb ram, and a couple fiber nics for it, > but have no idea how to manage the disks or what they will show up as. Anyone > know good tutorials or info on this type of setup? > > Sent from my iPhone > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
