I know this is "technically" storage talk, but, well, networking subforum is far more active.
I've got a Bladecenter chassis with 2 Brocade 4Gps 20-port FC switches. Attached to it are 2 SANs, a NetApp2020 and 2050. I've also got a pair of McData Sphereon 4500 (2Gbps FC switches) and an IBM DS4700 SAN that make up another fabric. The hosts attached to the DS4700 are bieng deprecated, but I'd like to keep the storage around.
what (if any?) considerations need to be made when considering moving the DS4700 over to the brocade switches?
my zoning is all single intiator (ESXi running on bladecenter blades, and a few SQL2k8R2 servers) to multiple targets (the 2020 and 2050), do I jsut need to make an alias for the DS4700, and add itt o my existing zones?
I've got a Bladecenter chassis with 2 Brocade 4Gps 20-port FC switches. Attached to it are 2 SANs, a NetApp2020 and 2050. I've also got a pair of McData Sphereon 4500 (2Gbps FC switches) and an IBM DS4700 SAN that make up another fabric. The hosts attached to the DS4700 are bieng deprecated, but I'd like to keep the storage around.
what (if any?) considerations need to be made when considering moving the DS4700 over to the brocade switches?
my zoning is all single intiator (ESXi running on bladecenter blades, and a few SQL2k8R2 servers) to multiple targets (the 2020 and 2050), do I jsut need to make an alias for the DS4700, and add itt o my existing zones?