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mrizos
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Building a virtual SAN?

I would love to learn about SAN's, but our shop is not getting one until next year. I have VMWare workstation v6. Is there anyway I could build a virtual san just to get some experience now? Any ideas?

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CXSANGUY
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On the EMC side of things, the closest you can come to that is to download the CLARiiON Navisphere Simulator (SAN) and the Celerra DART Simulator (NAS). The former is a small windows program that simulates the creation of things like RAID Groups and LUNs, while the latter is a full fledged VMware ACE package running the actual NAS DART code with two data movers.

Both are available through powerlink.emc.com. You can probably contact any EMC Sales Rep for assistance in getting an account setup or in locating those two files.

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