Ken<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/29 Ken Burtch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken-8VyUGRzHQ8IsA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org">ken-8VyUGRzHQ8IsA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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The SAN guy where I work says he might be interested in preparing a Linux SAN talk, if he's got time to prepare one. Might need a little arm twisting.<br>
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, William Muriithi wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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I am interested in learning more about SAN and it looks like its not<br>
going to be that easy. The biggest reason is that these hardware are<br>
rare and working with one is more like a privilege - akin to using<br>
supercomputers. The second reason is, there is I can not seem to find<br>
a book that present the material in an interesting and practical way.<br>
I naturally went to O'Reilly as I like the way they present material<br>
but their book on the topic is dated. 2002 is a century in the world<br>
of technology. It would not have anything to do with native multipath<br>
stuff for Linux for example.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_I/O" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_I/O</a><br>
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I am wondering if anyone among us have been lucky to work extensively<br>
with SAN and would be willing to share the knowledge. I think we could<br>
all gain by exchanging experience on the subject, for example on:<br>
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- Good practical reference we have come across - be either books or web links.<br>
- Share experience on hardware performance, especially when using<br>
multipathd and Linux in general. Yeah, I could get that information<br>
from the white page, but I will be frank and say I do not trust<br>
marketing department.<br>
- Any interesting way of gaining experience on the subject without<br>
parting with thousands of dollars.<br>
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Ah, one observation, wikipedia has a very good introduction article on<br>
it. I especially liked their diagrams.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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William<br>
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