Recent content by nev_neo

Thanks NetJunkie, will look into that.

I have 5 hosts. Each host has 2 FC connections going to each switch. On the VNX side I created a storage group and added each of the hosts to it. All of the hosts are running vsphere 4.0. Got to upgrade to 5 but we don't have a current service agreement with vmware.

Hey Child of Wonder, Thank you so much for the explanation. I've redone the fabric and zoned each initiator to each target. Is there anything else I need to do ?

Why would you need to have single initiator to single target ? I'm trying to understand what the point of that is, infact what is the point to having zones in the first place ? The way i've set this up is all the SAN targets are grouped into a single alias. The zones are then setup with each...

So, I finally got 2 brocade 5000's - emc branded. As I understand fabric zoning, every host should be isolated from other hosts and should only be connected to the Storage it needs to access. Basically each of them need to be in their own separate vlan. Am I correct in this assumption ?

True. I had it working before I installed a NATed pfsense firewall. I should be more specific with my questions. Is there a way of setting this up between 2 natted environments without using a vpn tunnel ?

How would one make this work ? I wanted to move our mail server to another network (much faster). I understand i'd need to setup another DC in the other network, but how exactly can we make this work ?

I've been thinking about doing that. If I get 2 MDS's how would I need to zone each switch for this kind of configuration ? So far i've just been plugging them in and letting the servers detect the luns.

I've been looking for MDs' on ebay, but i'm not sure what version i need to get. I need a 4Gb switch with atleast 16 ports. Would this one do ? -...

Guys, We've recently installed a VNX5100 in our rack and getting ready to migrate data from our old cx500. All the hosts are connected via old Mcdata 2gb switches. I want to move to newer 4gb or later switches. Do you have any recommendations ?

Thats a bit high. Whats the difference between them ?

Ugh, I wish I had asked on here before buying these. Would these be okay for light load environments ? I expect to have a total of 2x8host connections going into this. Its going to be our dev/test environment connected to a san melody device (hopefully)

So just a separate vlan ? Do i need anything else ? Does anything else need to be disabled ? I'm hooking these up to a couple of C6100's gonna use them for testing.

Wireless is fine if you're doing regular web-browsing on multiple computers. It gets bad when they start needing to file swap and move directories between multiple computers. Not very reliable IMHO.

Guys, I just purchased 2 CISCO WS-C2948G-GE-TX Switches. I was hoping to use these for iSCSI data for VM's. Does anyone have any tips on what the best practice is for setting this up ? or is this just plug and play ?