Sun Releases Code that Let's Customers Save Time and Money with Open Storage Arrays built with OpenSolaris COMSTAR
COMSTAR (Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target) -- now available in the latest OpenSolaris community build let's a standard x86 server transform into an Open Storage array. COMSTAR basically
allows the server to act like a block storage device. To the host system, a server running OpenSolaris
and configured with COMSTAR walks, talks and responds as a storage array.
COMSTAR is a open, pluggable architecture that allows developers to quickly add new storage targets (think iSCSI or Fibre Channel targets) and add new transports (the actual protocol support to talk to various devices (FC, SAS, etc.).
Director of Storage Platforms Scott Tracy wrote about the versatility of COMSTAR in this blog at blogs.sun.com/quicksticks
Recycle, reuse, repurpose. Make the most of your existing industry standard equipment. It's one of the many benefits of Open Storage.
URL blogs.sun.com/quicksticks is incorrect , the correct one is blogs.sun.com/quickstick
-anish
Posted by Anish on June 13, 2008 at 03:38 PM PDT #
The font on this blog entry is horrible. Please revert it to the default font.
Posted by 76.204.24.116 on June 14, 2008 at 11:03 PM PDT #
The comstar link has a typo. It should be http://opensolaris.org/os/project/comstar/
Posted by 192.18.1.36 on June 15, 2008 at 01:59 PM PDT #