[Info-vax] Hypervisors and clusters

[Chris Scheers]

Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 1/22/21 6:11 PM, Mark Berryman wrote:
>> I can't use a NAS because the only protocols on a NAS that present a 
>> raw disk to the host are iSCSI and fibre channel.
> 
> My opinion is that both iSCSI and Fibre Channel are block based SAN. 
> Conversely, NAS is file based.  There may be some things that call 
> themselves a NAS that actually provide SAN protocols.

Yes, it's getting very fuzzy.

My current NAS is running XigmaNAS.  I have both file shares and iSCSI 
served targets.  So it has both NAS and SAN features.

It's possible that if I installed a Fibre card I could serve Fibre 
channel devices, but I'm not sure.  I put in a 10GBe card and am serving 
iSCSI.  It works very well.

Plus, the NAS can directly run services, if I so desired.

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