On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Pascal Gienger wrote: > LALOT Dominique <dom.lalot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> zfs (but we should switch to solaris or freebsd and throw away our >> costly >> SAN) > > Why that? SAN volumes are running very fine with Solaris 10 hosts > (SPARC > and x86). You have extended multipathing (symmetric and asymmetric) > onboard. > Solaris accepts nearly all Q-Logic FC cards (according to my > experience). At my last job, we had explored a Dell/EMC SAN at one point. Those folks don't seem to understand the idea that Fibre Channel is a well established standard -- they only expect you to connect their supported stack of hardware and software, otherwise they don't wanna talk. -rob ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
