Hi all

i am newbiew to filer and storage , i am eager to know following things but unfortunately m not been able to get the rite pointers which can describe the stuffs in detail

1) How exactly the Fiber Channel works ? what are the stuffs involves in setting up a SAN using a Fiber Channeland what are their functions in details along with the alternativedevices that too supports the same functions and can be used 2) what is the purpose of space reservation as far as Netapp's Filer FCP support is concern , why people need space reservation for volumes,qtrees or for luns ? 3) what size of volume i need to have if i want 1 TB of lun ? i have read in docs that i should i have atleast 2-3 times volume size if i wanna have lun on the volume that is for 1 TB of lun i need to have 2-3 TB of volume, where the other storage space being used ? 4) what would be the usable lun storage capacity if i create lun of 1 TB? how much space will get utilized for partition table and keeping file systems metadata ? 5) is it possible to install more then one HBA's on hosts like solaris , windows mechines ?

Warm Regards, Prashant Desai

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