September 29, 20178 yr I'm looking to make a very easy NFS and Samba server for my lab at work. I work for a large tech company and I have inherited an old, but still useful 3Par T400 SAN. The SAN has about 90TB of storage on it. The SAN speaks only fiber channel and iscsi. I need to be able to serve up NFS and cifs from my SAN, so I will front end it with a server. I have access to HP DL and BL servers, and would prefer to use my BL server since I have a FC switch in my C3000 chassis already. My BL servers also have 10Gig nics and 8 Gig FC HBAs in them already. I have used unraid for a long time, and I think unraid would be great for this. I obviously wouldn't use a parity disk, and would just mount one large 10TB (or so disk) on unraid and serve from that. Whenever someone posts about FC or iscsi, everyone starts yelling at them that they don't understand what unraid is for. I do understand what Unraid is for. To be clear I do not need the operating system to provide disk fault tolerance at all, that is done in the SAN. I need the OS to provide ease of use and bridge file sharing protocols with SAN protocols. I'm using Unraid for its nice UI and nice statistics gathering and alarm functions. I don't think unraid supports FC HBAs or iscsi initiators, but if anyone has any ideas I would definitely like to hear them. I see that some RC candidates for unraid list qlogic adapters, so I'm not sure what that means. Thanks in advance.
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