SAN disk with freebsd?

Garrett Wollman wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Aug 11 09:29:05 PDT 2003


<<On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:24:13 -0500, Jonathan Fosburgh <syjef at mdanderson.org> said:

>> - Windows on the same loop as anything else
> Liberal use of zoning should help that.  Each Windows HBA should be in a 
> seperate zone.  This is from personal experience and also assumes you are 
> using a switched fabric.

I said ``loop'' for a reason.

The configuration that we were sold is pure FC-AL.  No fabrics.  Don't
do that, it's bad for your sanity.  If you can't afford a switch, you
can't afford Fibre Channel.

-GAWollman



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