[Info-vax] Hypervisors and clusters

Jan-Erik Söderholm jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Sun Jan 24 18:56:03 EST 2021


Den 2021-01-24 kl. 23:31, skrev 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.
> 

I have a Synology DS916+ in use since some years back. It seems there is
an update of the firmware on the way that supports FC on this. I do not
know how that works with no FC port on the NAS box...

It is not used from any VMS box here today, but anyway...



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