From: Jeff Barratt (jbarratt@COMPSAT.COM)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 22:13:39 EST
hopefully, this not too off-topic. I ask this because mostly AIX guys own
the sharks and fabrics in their environments.
I was in an IBM/cisco kickoff meeting today, the main focus was the cisco
SAN switches/director. however, iSCSI came up because that seems to be
Cisco's big advantage in this arena.
my questions:
1. Is anyone using iSCSI under AIX or M$? according to the cisco media
hype, AIX is supported
2. is anyone out there presenting LUNs from a 2105 to a cisco 5420/5428
storage router ?
3. if you answered yes to the previous 2 questions..Is anyone mirroring LVs
(or disk in M$ world) across both fibre channel and IP? I ask because it
makes a lot of sense in the Microsoft world. I could cut my connection cost
in half If I only needed 1 HBA in the host and for failover I used the
10/100/1Gb NIC. I am uncertain how load balancing/sharing would work via
SDD, but I assume I could tweak it so that only the FC HBA would be taking
disk requests until /if there was a failure and I could then offload traffic
via iSCSI.
any info on your experiences would be greatly appreciated.
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