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their Simple SAN approach and kicked off with Windows Server 2003 R2:
the idea is to bring together vendors under the Windows Storage Manage-
ment framework (VSS and VDS as discussed in Chapter 3), and produce
tools that can control the storage infrastructure components without hav-
ing the deep knowledge of the tools necessary to manage a multi-vendor
“by nature” infrastructure.
In summary, I really think that iSCSI infrastructures are designed to live
in parallel with SAN infrastructures for a while, providing the “Toyota [3]”
transport for storage, while Fibre Channel SAN offers the “Aston Martin
[4]” kind of transport.