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QUESTION POSED ON: 17 February 2004
What would be the primary reason to attach a gateway to an existing SAN?

The primary reason is to utilize the SAN storage resources for the block storage used by the NAS controller function. This is normally driven by the economics of consolidating file servers for administration purposes.

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