[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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