How difficult will gateways be to manage?

How difficult will gateways be to manage?

How easy/difficult will the gateways be to manage

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The storage resource (the block I/O device) will be managed as any storage device in the SAN. The gateway will be administered like a typical NAS device with the LUNs provided appearing to be captive storage. It should be nearly as simple as any NAS device.

Randy Kerns

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This was first published in February 2004