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i just receive the following response from Astek i asked for more information and i waiting next response i keep you informed

@stanza33 ok you think it's not possible to do this only with an expander, i read everywhere than sas expander and sas switch was the same think and so in this case what means "Supports connection to multiple initiators allowing Storage-Area- Networking and system redundancy" in the astek...

hi my goal is not redundancy but really Storage Networking i want two server , each with 1 HBA , who share some disk device for example if you looking the following expander datasheet http://files.astekcorp.com/Products/A33606-PCI/A33606-PCI_PB_20100322.pdf you see in the features...

lock is not done on hba level but fs level we done this everyday with SAN, iscsi or anything else who allow to share block device concurrent access is manage/done/allow by filesystem, VMFS (VMware) in my case my only question is to share sas target between two initiator with sas expander...

Hello everyboy how to share JBOD between two HBA ? my goal is to access some hard disk (vmfs formatted) between two ESX server logically it's one goal of an sas extender did someone have success with this multiple host access ? with witch extender ? thanks for your help regards

vSphere 5 GA is available, i juste run some test and Intel 82579 is always not supported did someone success to use it ?