Fibre Channel SAN with Windows Storage Server

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StangMan04

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I have a storage array that is running Windows Storage Server 2008. I currently use iSCSI targets attached to my media server. I was wondering if there was any way to use Fibre Channel targets in Windows Storage Server 2008? We have installed a HBA adapter and zoned the media server to the storage server.
 
StangMan04 said:
I have a storage array that is running Windows Storage Server 2008. I currently use iSCSI targets attached to my media server. I was wondering if there was any way to use Fibre Channel targets in Windows Storage Server 2008? We have installed a HBA adapter and zoned the media server to the storage server.
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Are you looking to boot from the target, or just have one or more LUNs available?
 
StangMan04 said:
I just want to present the LUNs to my media server.
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Are you running FC over ethernet, or are you just wanting to offer a iscsi target with FC attached devices connected locally to your server? If it is the former, MS support is less than stellar http://blog.fosketts.net/2010/04/15/microsoft-windows-server-fcoe-support/ and most of the FCoE SAN hardware/software combos are third party and proprietary. There are a number of *nic open source FCoE target and initiator projects though, http://scst.sourceforge.net http://www.open-fcoe.org/open-fcoe http://stgt.sourceforge.net/
 
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mwroobel said:
Are you running FC over ethernet, or are you just wanting to offer a iscsi target with FC attached devices connected locally to your server? If it is the former, MS support is less than stellar http://blog.fosketts.net/2010/04/15/microsoft-windows-server-fcoe-support/ and most of the FCoE SAN hardware/software combos are third party and proprietary. There are a number of *nic open source FCoE target and initiator projects though, http://scst.sourceforge.net http://www.open-fcoe.org/open-fcoe http://stgt.sourceforge.net/
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I was trying to avoid ethernet all together. Not sure if I am making any sense though. I am new to this.

This is what I am trying to do.

http://www.networksteve.com/forum/topic.php/Fiber_channel_target_with_Storage_Server/?TopicId=17024&Posts=0
 
You'll need 3rd party (non-MS) software to do it, like SANMelody.

Or you switch server OS completely to something like Solaris or Linux which have these capabilities available or built-in.
 
For cheap emulex cards you can use solaris or Openfiler

If you have logic cards, you can try open-e server

For windows to be a fc target, you have to either have lots o dollars, or find windows storage server and then some extra add on's I believe .... But I never actually got windows working as a fc target.

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Stanza33 said:
For cheap emulex cards you can use solaris or Openfiler

If you have logic cards, you can try open-e server

For windows to be a fc target, you have to either have lots o dollars, or find windows storage server and then some extra add on's I believe .... But I never actually got windows working as a fc target.

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Yea it is Windows Storage Server 2008. Just couldn't get Storage Manager for SANS to work properly.
 
I think I am going to skip over it since I cannot get it to work and install the backup software locally so the disk storage and backup software will be all in one box. Any benefits to RAID 6 or RAID 5 for backup storage?
 
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