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environment. Develop the test cases and run them in your pilot environment. Try
any possible “what if” scenarios. The costs of downtime of a small test
environment are incomparable to the costs of a downtime of your production
SAN environment.
15.2 Fabric considerations
Before introducing any new component into your fabrics, it is a good practice to
check the firmware levels of all the components and check with the product
vendors to learn if there are any compatibility issues at given firmware levels. The
m-type SAN routers can be interconnected together through mSAN or iSAN links
only if they are on the same Enterprise Operating System (E/OS) level. Running
different versions ...