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I'm sure there are people that would like to argue that this isn't a SAN, which is partially true. A SAN is a storage solution that makes storage accessible to servers so that devices appear like locally attached devices to the OS, which will be the case of me using iSCSI Targets for my VMs. This will give my VM Host Servers byte-level access to this storage, or at least part of it. I will also be using this as a NAS to store files, at the file level. The correct term of this, I believe, is NUS...Network Unified Storage. NUS is a relatively new term, but is basically a hybrid supporting fibre channel SAN (which I won't be using), IP-based SAN (which I will be using in the form of iSCSI), and NAS (which I will also be using).
I know none of that is what you asked, but I wanted to go ahead and get this information out there, before the trolls come out.

This is a whitebox NUS!

















