I want to add San Storage support in my application. Is there a standard protocol that I can use to communicate with all san storage devices like EMC Centera, Hitachi, NetApp or do I have to use library specific to each vendor?
In a nutshell i'd like to save data on device and read it back. I know these devices can be mounted as drives or published as network shares but do we have an open API level access to it?
Have any of you added such support to your application if so how?
Typically, those devices will be attached to a Windows and/or SQL Server in a transparent way, e.g. you as an application developer should not and must not deal with the implementation details of if and how a SAN has been attached.
Typically, you'd simply use either a drive letter connected to a SAN, or mount a network share from your SAN as a directory in your file system somewhere.
Marc