Which OS can work as a fiber-channel target?

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Published on 2010-04-12T20:26:05Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 20:33 UTC
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Just for the research, which OS can work from the box or with some 3rd-party software as a fc-target?

I know only the following: Solaris (currently only OpenSolaris+COMSTAR), Windows Storage Server.

Is that the only two above can?

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