Originally posted by Mark- Card Carrying FanaticRealist
[B]I agree with Colby2000 about NAS being a potential source of network flooding, however my preferred route for creating a NAS/iSCSI/SoIP infrastructure is to create an independent LAN for mass storage only i.e. a separate pair of Gigabit cards per server running on their own LAN to Gigabit switches that are dedicated to storage.
So you basically create a SAN - your dedicated storeage network - with NAS technology.
To get my facts straight: A NAS is nothing more than a basic file server?
So you basically create a SAN - your dedicated storeage network - with NAS technology.
To get my facts straight: A NAS is nothing more than a basic file server?
To your first point: not necessarily, but it's a gentle way to get from directly attached SCSI storage to FC technology without going hell for leather.
To your second point: An abstract simplification, but fundamentally yes.
Seems SoIP is just a trademark from Nishan systems.
Looks like normal iscsi (cant find any rfc references for SoIP).
so Nishan had to invent a new cool acronym instead of just
using iSCSI. Might mean one of two things:
1. was time to look cool to make sure the IPO went well,
or
2. they are clueless.
On the idea of apple NAS, I dont think MacOS X is ready for prime time just yet. They are still
working through bugs in their NFS and NLM implementations,
along with providing full windows active directory CIFS server support, then providing both at the same time
(ie. simulatenous multiprotocol (CIFS/NFS) access to the same filesystem). I dont like it if I am editing a file via a samba share on my mac, and a NFS user can write to it at the same time.
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Originally posted by Mark- Card Carrying FanaticRealist
[B]I agree with Colby2000 about NAS being a potential source of network flooding, however my preferred route for creating a NAS/iSCSI/SoIP infrastructure is to create an independent LAN for mass storage only i.e. a separate pair of Gigabit cards per server running on their own LAN to Gigabit switches that are dedicated to storage.
So you basically create a SAN - your dedicated storeage network - with NAS technology.
To get my facts straight: A NAS is nothing more than a basic file server?
Originally posted by RolandG
So you basically create a SAN - your dedicated storeage network - with NAS technology.
To get my facts straight: A NAS is nothing more than a basic file server?
To your first point: not necessarily, but it's a gentle way to get from directly attached SCSI storage to FC technology without going hell for leather.
To your second point: An abstract simplification, but fundamentally yes.
Looks like normal iscsi (cant find any rfc references for SoIP).
so Nishan had to invent a new cool acronym instead of just
using iSCSI. Might mean one of two things:
1. was time to look cool to make sure the IPO went well,
or
2. they are clueless.
On the idea of apple NAS, I dont think MacOS X is ready for prime time just yet. They are still
working through bugs in their NFS and NLM implementations,
along with providing full windows active directory CIFS server support, then providing both at the same time
(ie. simulatenous multiprotocol (CIFS/NFS) access to the same filesystem). I dont like it if I am editing a file via a samba share on my mac, and a NFS user can write to it at the same time.