Jason King wrote: > Close... For reference, IBM (among other vendors) apparently charges a > _lot_ for something like this: > http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc and it > seems like COMSTAR could almost do most of that (just missing a few > pieces). > > While it'd be nice if everyone saw the light of ZFS :), there are > still people who feel fibre channel, block based access over a SAN is > the way to go, and it'd be nice to leverage Opensolaris in this space. >
I think COMSTAR is a unique technology that provides a lot of possibilities, especially when combined with FC SAN and ZFS. In particular, its interesting to me that it is both: * Heavy and somewhat burdonsome as a simple file server, but * Extremely lightweight as a Storage Router The way that it abstracts mappings and LU from providers makes me feel like I'm dealing more with an enterprise storage systems such as EMC or NetApp than just a Solaris box. In this arena of re-vitializing existing SAN's by using COMSTAR/ZFS to reprovision and virtualize existing SAN infrastructure by acting as either a new target on the SAN or as a IP storage router is really fun. Endless possibilities, especially in terms of building management and control frameworks on top of it. If you want to get into more detailed discussion regarding architectural ideas I'm totally game. benr. _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
