At work we are trying to fulfill a user's requirement. The individual setup we have now is having each person with a workstation run a process on data on their local hard drive. We are trying to build an environment (for testing purposes) where we can have one drive that contains the data and be run by three of four workstations seperatly.
In short, we need a fast single storage drive that can be accessed by a few seperate workstations. We have PCI fiber cards and a SAN setup in a striping array with a fiber switch. Each workstation can see the full storage capacity of the SAN but cannot see what any other workstation writes to the drive. So if I am on workstation 1 and save a file on the SAN, workstation 2 will not see it and will claim the drive is empty. If I reboot one of the workstations, it will be able to see the files that the other put on.
I am trying to figure out if there is any way to accomplish this task. I'm thinking an alternate route would be a simple file server over gigabit ethernet. Any suggestions appreciated, thanks.
In short, we need a fast single storage drive that can be accessed by a few seperate workstations. We have PCI fiber cards and a SAN setup in a striping array with a fiber switch. Each workstation can see the full storage capacity of the SAN but cannot see what any other workstation writes to the drive. So if I am on workstation 1 and save a file on the SAN, workstation 2 will not see it and will claim the drive is empty. If I reboot one of the workstations, it will be able to see the files that the other put on.
I am trying to figure out if there is any way to accomplish this task. I'm thinking an alternate route would be a simple file server over gigabit ethernet. Any suggestions appreciated, thanks.
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