Is there a way to create a SAN for a home Student Lab?

[vmman34]

Hi I cant afford to buy SAN technology and I want to be able to test some strorage scenarios.

Is there way to simulate SAN storage for home labs?

Thanks

[jayolsen]

check http://www.phdvirtual.com/utilities/virtualSAN.php

[a_p_]

Is there way to simulate SAN storage for home labs?

There a several options to do this. Just setup OpenFiler, e-Open, Starwind or even HP/Lefthand P4000 VSA and configure it as shared storage in your (virtual) VMware hosts.

André

[vmman34]

How do you do that?

Thanks

[vmman34]

check http://www.phdvirtual.com/utilities/virtualSAN.php

I am using ESXi 4.

Will it work with that?

Thanks

[a_p_]

You can download a "HP/Lefthand P4000 VSA" virtual appliance for ESXi (http://www.hp.com/go/vsa). You will also get all the documentation on how it works there.

André

[Troy_Clavell]

check here too, , there are some great solutions and how to guides.

[toha]

I would grab a NexentaStor Community Edition storage appliance and test with iSCSI and NFS. It can actually act as an FC target if you have budged to procure FC adapters.