I can understand your point of view but what you're saying is not always true... First consider certain environment where starting fm a 400k € pricelist arrive at 150k€ sold to end customer...some few k€ for another couple of switches reported to 400 is cheaper but it can't be so reported to the end price...
Second. The current 200E 16ports Brocade are licensed for full fabric and long distance (lot of money...) and there are now two monomodal fibers running for 1200 meters that create the two ISL for MC. What's about the cost to add another one or a pair of them just to trunk the switches hosting the app servers? (I presume you can imagine that if I want so HA and BC I put the node of my app cluster on the two sites, right?)
:-)
Regards,
-----Messaggio originale----- Da: Filip Sneppe [mailto:filip.sneppe@gmail.com] Inviato: martedì 4 dicembre 2007 14.30 A: Milazzo Giacomo Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Oggetto: Re: Fabric MC and Brocade free ports usage
Hi,
On 12/4/07, Milazzo Giacomo G.Milazzo@sinergy.it wrote:
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?
With a setup like this, I think you paid a lot of money for a configuration no one (certainly not NetApp) will be willing to give you any level of support on ...
Are you going to be able to justify this to your upper management if s*** really hits the fan ? I would just buy two extra FC switches for your host-to-LUN connectivity.
Best regards, Filip