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Devin Crane
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Q: Xsan without a FC switch?

Was looking at one of the Promise drives which comes with 4 8GBs ports and was curious if I could hook up 3 workstations + 1MDC to the drive without using a FC switch?  Of course we would still have a gigabit switch for MD.

Posted on Jun 7, 2012 3:34 PM

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Devin Crane

Q: Xsan without a FC switch?

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  • by Blaidd Drwg,

    Blaidd Drwg Blaidd Drwg Jun 8, 2012 1:52 AM in response to Devin Crane
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    Jun 8, 2012 1:52 AM in response to Devin Crane

    I did that once with an E610 VTrak and two Macs. It worked. With a newer E630, I don't see why you couldn't connect four Macs, each with one connection to each controller.

     

    Now this really crazy talk: you might even be able to connect eight Macs to an E630 if it has ALUA enabled and all the Macs are running 10.7. I have not tried that, though.