I wonder why you always mention IBM, EMC, SUN, HP, Compaq and HDS as SAN vendors and ignore Network Appliances. The reason I asked it is that I have some examples of configuration that I consider a SAN. Suppose we have several NetApps connected at the back end through Fibre Channel. We connect every NAS box to the Fibre Channel switch or router (iSCSI/FC) connected to a tape library. Using NDMP we have all data stream flow directly to the tape library. Can we call this structure SAN or not?

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No problem. The reason I don't usually mention NetApps when I talk about SAN is because they are a NAS vendor. There is a NAS expert on the SearchStorage site that answers those questions.

Chris

Editor's note: This Ask the Expert Q&A is in response to a previous ATE.

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This was first published in May 2002

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