StorageWorks MSA60 and other storage related questions

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Published on 2010-12-28T11:01:52Z Indexed on 2010/12/28 11:55 UTC
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Hi,

I do not have deeper knowledge of the storage area, sorry for asking evidently stupid questions :) We are thinking about getting HP StorageWorks MSA60 for storing our VM. Do we need another DL server with controller so that we could use iSCSI ? Do we need to get some P800 controller for doing that? I cannot imagine how it is connected together actually ... MSA60->DLserver with p800 controller and servers that are running VM connected with iSCSI to this DL server ?

Or MSA60 directly supports iSCSI so the DL server is not necessary ? What is inside this MSA60? Is it possible to install there OS ?

Thank you.

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