SAN is a very big and fast storage for reading and writing big data in each organization. I want to design a simple san (virtual) in vmware or any other software such as freeNAS or OpenE.
freenas is the best one as far as i have seen and i am currently using that as my storage server, you can also try zentyal, it is not a storage server it is more of an firewall and gateway but it also supports SAN/NAS features. i currently use it as my firewall and gateway with DHCP allocation in my network.