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VMAXe FA Port Design Question
Hello... We are purchasing a two-engine VMAXe and I have a couple planning questions:
#1. What are the FA Port designations for each engine?
(in a regular VMAX, the first two engines are 8E-0, 9E-0, 10E-0, 11E-0, etc...)
I see a document "front-end port layout" that shows similar port numbers E0, E1, F0, F1, etc., but I don't see anything related to the FA designation.
#2. What is best practice related to SAN Connectivity
We connected all even director ports to Fabric A and odd director ports to Fabric B with the VMAX
8e-0, 8e-1, 8f-1, etc. go to Fabric A
9e-0, 9e-1, 11f-0, etc. go to Fabric B
But I see statements that describe connecting ports from both odd and even directors to both fabrics
8e-0, 9e-0, 10e-0, 11f-0, etc. go to Fabric A
8e-1, 9e-1, 10e-1, 11f-1, etc. go to Fabric B
Thanks!
dynamox
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January 3rd, 2012 12:00
according to this , yes ports are FA1 and FA2 in engine 1. I see what you doing in your layout. Looks good to me.
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dynamox
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January 3rd, 2012 09:00
2) you want each fabric to have ports from odd and even directors so that when you zone your host, each HBA has connectivity to add and an even director port.
jbowlingfnts
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January 3rd, 2012 09:00
Not for the VMAXe - We will be using RecoverPoint with the built-in RPA Splitter!
(That's the plan anyway...)
dynamox
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January 3rd, 2012 09:00
no SRDF ?
jbowlingfnts
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January 3rd, 2012 09:00
Thanks dynamox...
It looks like from all indications, this is how the FA ports map out:
We would connect all of the "0" ports to Fabric A and all of the "1" ports to Fabric B...
Hopefully I got that correct.
Thanks!
dynamox
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January 3rd, 2012 10:00
something like this, each port group has 4 FAs:
dynamox
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January 3rd, 2012 10:00
all fibre channel modules ?
jbowlingfnts
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January 3rd, 2012 11:00
I was mapping out groups a little differently, but I'm open to suggestions:
This way every port group has a member in across all directors and engines (in a 2 engine config)?
All 0 ports would belong to Fabric A and all 1 ports would belong to Fabric B - Mapping only slot 3.
jbowlingfnts
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January 3rd, 2012 11:00
Yes - All 8GB Fiber Connections...
dynamox
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January 3rd, 2012 11:00
is this what you were looking for in quesiton 1 ?
jbowlingfnts
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January 3rd, 2012 11:00
I belive so... I wasn't sure if the FA ports are actually FA1 & FA2 in Engine1 and FA3 & FA4 in Engine 2...
The VMAX starts with FA's 8, 9, 10 & 11 so I just wanted to clarify...
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January 29th, 2012 09:00
vmax starts with engine4(dir 7,8) and engine5(dir 9,10), i try to remember by director numbers by enginenumber*2 & (enginenumber*2)-1