May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
15h 3m
English
book
Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000
by Brian Cartwright, Ronda Hruby, Daniel Koeck, Xin Liu, Massimo Rosati, Thomas Vogel, Bill Wiegand, Jon Tate
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42 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 V6.3
2.4 Host configuration planning
Hosts should have two Fibre Channel connections for redundancy, but IBM Storwize V7000
supports hosts with a single HBA port connection. However, if that HBA or its link to the SAN
fabric or the fabric itself fails, then the host loses access to its volumes. Even with just a
single connection to the SAN, the host has multiple paths to the IBM Storwize V7000
volumes, because that single connection must be zoned with at least one Fibre Channel port
per node. Therefore, a multipath driver is required.
SAN Boot with IBM Storwize V7000 is supported. The requirements are listed on the IBM
Storwize V7000 support matrix and configuration instructions are provided in the IBM ...
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