A client is looking to upgrade their Fibrechannel disk array (old HP
Storageworks with 12x64GB drives). Their goals are replace it with more
capacity, but another project is they want to increase the storage capacity of
their DAS server (an HP DL380 with an HP Storageworks SCSI array with 12x150GB
SCSI) that they use as a dumb NAS device.
My knee jerk response to the NAS issue is of course to use Openfiler. However,
rather than purchase some hardware FC array, why couldn't I instead build or
purchase a Linux box, place a FC HBA in it, and run some software package to
present the storage in the Linux box to the FC network? Bam, FC SAN storage
capacity problem solved (performance hasn't been an issue for them.. the HP
solution was overkill and they were duped by their "consultant" a few years
back).
Then, I could take their existing DL380, pop an HBA in it, and run Openfiler on
it as their NAS, adding filer and iSCSI capabilities over their DAS "server".
So to make a short question long, does anybody know of a way to turn a linux
box into a Fibrechannel storage device?
-=dave
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