[Tfug] Debian box connected to SAN

[Brian Murphy]

Quoting elemint at theriver.com:
> We are purchasing a HBA from Dell to connect to our SAN and Dell says
> there is a licence required for the HBA and that they only have the
> Windows Lic and Red Hat licences so they are saying that if there is not a
> HBA with a Debian licence we can not buy the HBA to be isntalled on  a
> Debian box...
>
> Anyone have know of a HBA with a Debian Licence or anyone have a Debian
> box connected to a SAN that can shed some light on this?


I don't use debian, but I have some Red Hat systems with QLogic HBAs
connected to a pair of Dell/EMC CX400s.

The HBAs aren't licensed products.  However, support software like EMC
PowerPath is.  So, I think the main factor is what kind of storage
system you are connecting to and what that storage system's client
requirements are.  I would generally think that the Red Hat version
could be hacked to work with any linux distro. (without vendor support)

Brian

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