Hi!

We currently have two different SAN arrays - one IBM DS4300 Turbo
connected to 2 separate IBM/McData 32 port switches, and an MSA 1500cs
connected directly to our TSM backup server.

The MSA uses SATA disks for inexpensive storage of backup data, while
the DS4300 uses fiberchannel disks, and is better suited for our
exchange servers, vmware cluster, sql servers etc.

We're now implementing Enterprise Vault, and would like to store our
archive on the MSA - and thus we need to connect it to our fabric
switches.

Is it unproblematic to connect these two arrays to the same fabric -
and is it possible to have LUNs from both the IBM array and HP array
visible to the same server ? I.e. is the multipathing drivers able to
coexist ?

Thanks in advance!

-ragnar

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Hi Ragnar,

first sorry for my english,
i think that you mut have got the same domain en all of you fabrics,
you must configure zone carefully because you can damage the other
ones, i think yo must tried this with test fabrics first, the fabrics
must have a concret firmware,
i'm looking for that with a IBM fast9000 and HP EVA5000 but i've got
all of them in produc area and i cant testit :S
Sergi

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Thanks - I'll try setting up a test environment. (Though I have the
same problem as you - both our SANs are in a production state).

I guess I won't be able to access LUNs from both arrays, then... Might
make the migration a bit more of a challenge, then.

Thanks!

-ragnar

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