SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

Chapter 1.5.6. Sample standard SVC zoning configuration

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16 SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines 1.5.6 Sample standard SVC zoning configuration This section contains a sample “ standard” zoning configuration for an SVC cluster. Our sample only has two I/ O Groups, two storage arrays, and eight hosts. ( see Figure 1- 8). Obviously, this configuration needs to be duplicated on both SANs; we will be showing the zoning for the SAN we name “ A”. The naming convention we use here is probably much longer than anything that you use in a production installation, and you will probably want to use something not quite as verbose in your own configuration. Figure 1- 8 Example SVC SAN For the sake of brevity, we only discuss ...