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To: darryl25 who wrote (35744)	11/30/2000 4:57:40 PM
From: gingersreisse	Respond to of 54805

great first post! There's an interesting white paper on Network Appliance's site discussing interoperability with Brocade to access other media, such as SAN. The paper's almost two years old, but seems to lay the ground work for a major assault on EMC. I wonder if anything more recent is available elsewhere. netapp.com GSR

To: darryl25 who wrote (35744)	11/30/2000 10:01:31 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

I'm curious if NTAP has thought of providing a FC interface to their filers. With IP over FC capability, the filer could talk NFS over a FC network to a SAN host, thus NTAP would play in both games, SAN and NAS. Keep in mind that NTAP uses FC to its drive arrays. They use a 2-channel FC to provide channels from two "clustered" filers to disk arrays and a NUMA connection between the CPU's so that if one filer fails, the other takes over the work of the failed unit while continuing with its normal duties. See my earler post about DAFS/VI, where DAFS/VI will the the protocol between filers, independent of the media (802.3, FC, InfiniBand). Much more robust than FC.