[Tim Vruwink]

Matt –
Thanks for the follow up. I am really disappointed no one here has chimed in with some thoughts.

I am still mulling over this – trying to find information/examples of how it could work. I know some of the higher end SANs (EMC, Compellent etc) have FC + iSCSI options but their prices are really high, and there is no promises that FCsrvr + Xsan2/MetaSAN would work correctly with this configuration. The other issue I am faced with is the new promise vtracks don’t appear to be on the ESX HCL.

The Promise Vtracks look “ok” but they don’t have all the features other SAN vendors provide (snapshots, thin provisioning, dynamic block level management etc). They are really targeted specifically for video production, and are not a true “san” solution.