MacOS X San Array support on Xserve Intel

Hello,
We have a datacenter with several XServe Intel connected to XServe RAID using FC (for Apple file sharing services). A part of the datacenter is migrating to VMware ESX. The XServe RAID cannot be used under VMware (no official support and performance problems) and we cannot have two SAN array.
Is it possible to connect the Apple XServe (with MacOS X 10.4 or 10.5) using FC to anything else than an XServe RAID ? For example an EMC Clariion ?

I successfully connected an Intel Xserve to an EMC Clariion X600 array this past summer for testing purposes. Just make sure you get the UUID of the SAN from the System Admin of the SAN array. Similarly you'll have to give the SAN admin the UUID for your Fibre Channel interface. The UUID is like an Ethernet MAC address and allows you to see the SAN array over the Fibre Channel connection. We also had to get an SFP adapter for our Fibre Channel card as our SAN switch was all fiber optic connections.
Once we configured both ends of the Fibre Channel and the System Admin had allocated a 100GB slice to my UUID, I initially couldn't see the SAN. After about a day of delays and double-checking the SAN admin rebooted the SAN, I rebooted the Xserve and the 100GB slice magically showed up in Disk Utility as unformatted storage directly attached to the machine. I don't know if there's any trick to configuring the Clariion box. I know they made no adjustments or changes to get the Mac to work on the SAN side. The system admin of the SAN kept saying, "We've never done this before,... You have to install the drivers for the SAN,... what interface is the Mac using?...Who manufactures it?...Do they provide any drivers whatsoever for the Mac?...
Also our on-campus Mac re-seller directed me to alienRAID.org
http://alienraid.org/
There's some entries there on hooking Apple Fibre Channel to Clariion hardware:
http://alienraid.org/article.php?story=macosxemcsupport

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