Storage Area Network as a tlug meeting topic

[Ken Burtch]

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.

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On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, William Muriithi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am interested in learning more about SAN and it looks like its not
> going to be that easy. The biggest reason is that these hardware are
> rare and working with one is more like a privilege - akin to using
> supercomputers. The second reason is, there is I can not seem to find
> a book that present the material in an interesting and practical way.
> I naturally went to O'Reilly as I like the way they present material
> but their book on the topic is dated. 2002 is a century in the world
> of technology. It would  not have anything to do with native multipath
> stuff for Linux for example.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_I/O
>
> I am wondering if anyone among us have been lucky to work extensively
> with SAN and would be willing to share the knowledge. I think we could
> all gain by exchanging experience on the subject, for example on:
>
> - Good practical reference we have come across -  be either books or web links.
> -  Share experience on hardware performance, especially when using
> multipathd and Linux in general. Yeah, I could get that information
> from the white page, but I will be frank and say I do not trust
> marketing department.
> -  Any interesting way of gaining experience on the subject without
> parting with thousands of dollars.
>
> Ah, one observation, wikipedia has a very good introduction article on
> it. I especially liked their diagrams.
>
> Regards,
>
> William
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