Questions tagged [fibre-channel]
Fibre-channel is a communications protocol widely used in storage networks. It's most widely deployed in enterprise SAN environments, where large amounts of storage need to be shared amongst a number of different hosts, potentially over longer distances. The protocol is primarily used over fibre optic media (hence the name), but can also be used with copper interconnects.
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How do I set up IP over FC?
I have 2 systems, with a Broadcom BCM5701 and a LSI7202p, of which are connected with a LC->SC cable. The cards are properly detected in Linux, however I wish to set up IP over FC. I've read online ...
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Is it possible to use Linux as a Fibre Channel Raid Disk Box?
You probably all know the relatively simple RAID boxes exporting a bunch of SATA disks as one big drive via FC, SAS or iSCSI, like the HP StorageWorks MSA2000, Infortrends EonStore series or many ...
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Fibre Channel zoning best practices
I'm hoping that this will be useful for more people than just me.
Right now I've got a fibre channel switch, a NetApp filer, and some servers running Oracle. All of the servers can see the same LUNs ...
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Mounting LUN from EMC VNX5300 via FC on Centos 6
On my VMX5300, I have created LUNs, configured hosts etc. Mounting LUNs in my ESXi is very simple, ESXi host discovered new FC device and with a few clicks I was able to mount new FC storage. On ...
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Can a NetApp disk array be used as a JBOD?
I have a bunch of (old) NetApp DS14MK2 disks arrays with Fibre Channel connections.
I wouldn't use them to anything critical, but instead of throwing them out, could I use each of them as a separate ...