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Xserve SAN? – O’Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog

It’s not that Apple doesn’t clarify this on their site, but I never looked into the details until it was time for us to purchase a SAN solution. Now that I have looked, I would suggest calling the Xserve RAID the “Xserve SAN” or even the “Apple SAN”, since out of the box that’s what it is, whether you run it with Xsan or not.

So, not only will the Xserve RAID work as a DAS, but you can also plug one into a Fibre Channel switch, and its volumes will be available as local storage to the servers on that switch (none of which have to be Xserves), making it a true SAN device.

Check it out, quite interesting, obviously it might not be appropriate for your tier 1 applications, but for those shared infrastructure solutions like where the space is needed, but it doesn’t need to be resilient, doesn’t need to be online, as long as it can be restored, that’s where it might be a solution in the enterprise sector.

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