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    From Grant Taylor@gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net to comp.os.os2.misc on Sun Dec 1 14:47:04 2019
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    Do OS/2 Warp / eCS / ArcaOS support Storage Area Networks in any
    capacity? I'm guessing that if anything, they only support Fibre Channel.

    I do see that ArcaOS has knowledge of QLogic QLA2100 Host Bus Adapters
    in the Storage Adapter selection when booting the installer with menus
    to choose options.

    I'm presuming that SAN LUNs will show up as SCSI disks to OS/2 Warp /
    eCS / ArcaOS. (I'm trying to avoid a single disk being a SPOF in my
    install.)

    Does anyone have any experience with OS/2 Warp / eCS / ArcaOS and Fibre
    Channel SAN?
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  • From Marcel Mueller@news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org to comp.os.os2.misc on Mon Dec 2 08:10:03 2019
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    Am 01.12.19 um 22:47 schrieb Grant Taylor:
    Does anyone have any experience with OS/2 Warp / eCS / ArcaOS and Fibre Channel SAN?

    I didn't try so far, but I would strongly recommend virtualization in
    this case. This adds another abstraction layer and lets you freely
    choose and change the appropriate hardware.
    It can also be part of high availability concept since VMs can easily be
    saved and/or moved, depending on your hypervisor even on the fly.


    Marcel
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  • From Grant Taylor@gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net to comp.os.os2.misc on Mon Dec 2 15:14:26 2019
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    On 12/2/19 12:10 AM, Marcel Mueller wrote:
    I didn't try so far, but I would strongly recommend virtualization in
    this case. This adds another abstraction layer and lets you freely
    choose and change the appropriate hardware.
    It can also be part of high availability concept since VMs can easily be saved and/or moved, depending on your hypervisor even on the fly.

    I would normally agree with you.

    However I have a physical PCI card (discussed in other threads) that
    doesn't work well via PCI passthrough. Hence physical box.

    My hope is that I can get SAN functional so that I don't need to worry
    nearly as much about the disk(s) in the machine hosting said PCI card.
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