HBA

Fibre Channel HBAs initiator or target mode for netapp

How can you tell if the fibre channel hbas are in initiator or target mode in a NettApp SAN? Software/Hardware used: Netapp SAN, HBA

XenServer on Hitachi BladeSymphony 320

I have installed XenServer on a blade inside a Hitachi BladeSymphony 320. The issue i have is that it doesnt recognize the FC HBA Any suggestions

Virtualization's impact on drivers and switches

What is virtualization’s impact on HBA drivers and zoning switches?

Accessing heterogeneous disk arrays to a Windows server using a single HBA via SAN

I am planning my disk array upgrade, and I want to know if anyone has any thoughts, or if there are any reference/best practice/white papers, for accessing heterogeneous disk arrays to a Windows server using a single HBA via SAN. Any concern about the multi-path software?

Urgent SAN on Redhat x86_64 problem

If I run probe-luns -a, it shows all 3 luns. I then use fdisk -l and it shows the devices as expected. Output after reboot: [root@hhln-mgt-sac101 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.7 GB, 146778685440 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17844 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280...

Can I transfer the data between SANs by connecting one HBA to one SAN and the other HBA to the new SAN

Can I transfer the data between SANs by connecting one HBA to one SAN and the other HBA to the new SAN and copy the data We have around 500gb of data. Any help is appreciated.

3Par and EMC problesm

I have a Sun x4100 has two qlogix qle2460 HBAs both connected to a 3Par SAN and a EMC cx700 SAN. When both HBA's are active in non-failover mode we can see the LUNs in /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/3 and 4 - BUT fdisk does not see the devices. If we have the HBAs set in failover mode we only see the LUNs on...

NAS or SAN?

We have a need to run numerous virtual servers from a NAS/SAN. The questions is, which should we choose? THe product we support (Citrix XenServer) supports either for backend virtual system storage and can run VM's from either. Currently, our needs are small. We have about 10 virtual servers that...

How do I see one HBA ww port name ?

I want to know what is the command or set of step to get to the ww port name of a Fiber Channel card. I thought it was on the strsst menu, But I can´t find it

SAN attach Windows servers hang on boot

I have several IBM X series (342,345,346) servers with Windows 2000 and 2003 loaded. I am experiencing an issue with the server hanging when booting. This only happens when I have the server connected to the SAN. I am using Qlogic 2340 HBA connecting to Cisco 9509 SAN switches. I can see the...

Fabric / Storage Administration

Currently today, we have a group that administers our storage from end to end (HBA to switch to storage cabinet). Our CIO is looking to give the responsibility of our Fabric to our Networking folks. I was just wondering how other places layed out the responbility of the different aspects of...

san consideration for backup: hba

Can 1 hba be used to access disk storage and tape devices on a SAN? Is this a good practice? Thanks.

CX-500 LUNs

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Am presenlty Testing the I/o performance on the new CX-500 San From Emc And Hba From Emulex,The LUn Size is 1 TB and when doing the Testing with SQlIO Tool with a I/o block size-8 i get 39.3 MB/sec for Random write requestes but when doing the same with...

Getting errors backing up a Windows SAN

I am running a Windows 2003 server on a SAN. using 2 qlogic 2300's connected to the IBM 2109-f16 switch. A IBM 4560slx tape library using a FCO (Fibre channel option) card in the library. The FCO card is connected to the IBM 2109-f16 switch. I have "port" zoned the Server and the library in one...