Connecting an XRaid in our network

Hi All,
We have a network build around two XServes and Linux servers, where the one of our XServ is managing our work group. All clients are connected through 3Com 1G switch to the Xservs and their internal disks.
We want to upgrade our system to hold 3.5TB using an XRaid. The XRaid should hold all home directories and some share points.
1. Is it possible to connect the XRaid to our 1G switch or do we have to buy a fiber channel switch?
2. If we need a fiber channel switch, which should we buy? How can we connect the fiber channel switch to our 1G network?
Thanks,
Ziv

Ziv,
To access the RAID a computer either needs to have a fibre channel card and be connected to the switch or connected over ethernet to a computer connected through fibre to the RAID. The Apple Xserve RAID deployment page does a decent job of illustrating the basics of fibre channel connections.
As a drop in replacement for you current set-up you would connect the RAID to the Workgroup Xserve via fibre channel. The RAID would mount on the Xserve and you would then migrate your shares to the new "drive" and people would continue to access them as they always have. From the Xserve's point of view the RAID is just a really big really fast disk that it will use like any other disk. The magic of the RAID is that it overcomes the speed/size limitations of a single drive by ganging drives but it is still essentially just another harddrive at the system level.
It sounds like you might be expecting the Xserve RAID to do more than it does - it is simply a mass storage device and needs some kind of intelligent interface for other computers to "talk to" for sharing. The exception to this would be to slice the RAID into discrete shares and hook everyone to the switch and have them see only their share. For more than a couple computers (usually servers) this is awkward and prohibitively expensive and should probably be re-thought.
If you think of the Xserve RAID as buying a 3.5TB external drive with a fancy interface you'll be on the right track. Just like an external firewire drive you need to hook it up to computer and share it out for people to see it. Let me know if this is still unclear.
HTH,
=Tod
G5/2.0x2, Dual XServes x2, XRAID, beige G3 501Mhz

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