Stevehewitt
IS-IT--Management
Hi Guys,
New to SAN's so please bare with me whilst I scramble to learn - fraid I'm more of an ethernet man at heart...!
Got two CX300's connected to four server via two Brocade 200E switches in a full mesh redundant fabric. (two paths from each server to either SAN)
We've just purchased two CX4-120, another two Brocade 200E's and four new servers.
I'm planning on setting these up in a similar manner, however once they are all connected is is technically possible for me to connect one of the new switches to one of the old ones?
Or would it be more ideal to simply have a connection from new server to old switch than from new switch to old switch?
I appreciate that it will be faster as each server will have a 2Gbps connection to the old SAN (and 4Gbps to the new one); yet if I use a single connection from old switch to new switch there will only be a single 4Gbps connection contended between all servers - but is it fesiable to do this?
Cheers,
Steve.
"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson
New to SAN's so please bare with me whilst I scramble to learn - fraid I'm more of an ethernet man at heart...!
Got two CX300's connected to four server via two Brocade 200E switches in a full mesh redundant fabric. (two paths from each server to either SAN)
We've just purchased two CX4-120, another two Brocade 200E's and four new servers.
I'm planning on setting these up in a similar manner, however once they are all connected is is technically possible for me to connect one of the new switches to one of the old ones?
Or would it be more ideal to simply have a connection from new server to old switch than from new switch to old switch?
I appreciate that it will be faster as each server will have a 2Gbps connection to the old SAN (and 4Gbps to the new one); yet if I use a single connection from old switch to new switch there will only be a single 4Gbps connection contended between all servers - but is it fesiable to do this?
Cheers,
Steve.
"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson