Hi,
According to me, if it's not supported don't do it. When you are in trouble you will not get any support. The only thing you can do then is to get rid of those "not" supported" connections. This means angry users, management that don't understand those things and so on.... You always got the blame and why? Always the same answer cost reduction. But in the end is it worth it????
Bes regards...
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Milazzo Giacomo Sent: dinsdag 4 december 2007 13:29 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Fabric MC and Brocade free ports usage
Hi All
In a fabric MC enviroment a pair of Brocade 16 ports have been used for each site. Once filled with the needed connections to head and selve (Pool0 and Pool1) there are a lot of SFP empty with no connection.
I know that other connection are not supported but I've already tried to attach a dual target HBA installed in each head and some HBA coming from hosts (Windows or Linux) and without zoning (you don't need it for MC) the Brocade I can expose all my FC LUNs created on NetApp and only to the right host using igroups with the 'authorized' WWWN. NetApp of course is in single_image cf mode.
What do you think about this "unsupported" configuration?
Many thanks