“Xinit… has produced Openfiler, NAS appliance software, which
runs on a Linux, X86 platform and feeds files to Windows and Unix
server clients via CIFS, SMB, NFS and WebDAV. It already has disk
virtualisation, and the development roadmap is to add SAN
capabilities. Then Xinet’s existing SharqStor NAS product could
become SharqStor SAN, utilising either Fibre Channel or iSCSI
connectivity.“Xinet software engineer and developer Mukund Sivasraman
explained that, ‘Openfiler can aggregate all the storage it has
locally attached and storage accessed over iSCSI or Fibre Channel
or both. It can divide this into (logical) volumes and allows you
to mark individual volumes for export.’ In other words, Openfiler,
accessed via a browser interface, can aggregate local and remote
disks into a single logical pool of storage and serve logical
volumes carved out of this to server clients…”