On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Ben Rockwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason King wrote: >> I'm curious if anyone has tried this (or if this is just insane :P). >> For those places that already have a large SAN investment in place, at >> least some of them are looking at virtualization solutions. >> Specifically to do things like present fake luns that are potentially >> mirrored across multiple arrays (to facilitate wide-scale array >> migrations and such and to paper over lesser-functional FC stacks on >> other operating systems). It seems like with COMSTAR, it wouldn't >> take a whole lot to add such support. Are there any plans to >> implement such features? >> If not, I might propose a project later in the year when I have more >> time (as it seems like it'd be interesting if anything), but wanted to >> see if anything was in the works today. > > I don't see any problems at all with this, COMSTAR is the key. > > There was a presentation at the recent OpenSolaris Storage Summit that > might help: "Storage Re-provisioning with COMSTAR" > (http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/OpenSolaris+Storage+Summit+200902) > Its the first session in Track 2. Video and slides are available. > > Let me know if that isn't close enough.
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. _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
