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Zoning on VNX 5200
HI
I am getting new VNX 5200 and pretty familiar with it but I have one question about zonning. For example I have host lets name it ESXi with 2 HBA HBA1 and HBA2 and VNX system with two storage processors SPA and SPB. Each storage processor has two fiber channel ports port 1 and 2.
So I was planning to do zoning in the following fashion:
ESXi_HBA1-SPA_Port1 first zone
ESXi HBA1-SPB_Port1 second zone
THese zones are on the first switch
Second switch zoning
ESXi_HBA2-SPA_Port2 first zone
ESXi HBA2-SPB_Port2 second zone
THis is fully redundant with two switches. I dont think i should create zone with one HBA connected to all 4 ports on service processors.
Does anyone know whether this would be appropriate configuration for zoning for VNX 5200
gvaidman
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Posted November 9th, 2015 19:00
This is pretty typical for most VNX/CLARiiON implementations I've seen.
Single-Initiator/Single-Target zones like your first suggestion are best practice for the VNX, because VNX ports can serve as both initiators and targets and thus it's best not to zone them to each other.
You can also spread the load across front-end ports since you likely have 4 or more ports on each SP. Thus, zone your first host to SPA0, SPA1, SPB0, SPB1, and your second host to SPA2, SPA3, SPB2, SPB3, etc. And then cycle back once you've exhausted your front-end ports.