ethernet vc

[ilayy]

hi experts i have ethernet vc installed in bay 1 and 2 in c7000 also i have to redundant external swtiches i want to configure redundant ethernet connection.
1)is it possible to use vc in bay 2 as acrive vc also and configure network redundancy at the server level?
2)if not. for example i have a bl460c in bay 1 so the nic 1 is connected to the port 1 to vc in bay 1 one nic 2 is connected to the port 1 of the vc in bay 2 now if i configure a vlan that connect the nic 1 of the server to the uplink one and now the vc in bay 1 go down what happen ? what happen?

[Lmm_1]

You can handle failover at the server level, as an example, you create 2 networks on VC, NetA using uplink ports on VC bay 1 and NetB using uplink ports on VC bay 2 (Smartlink enabled on both), each VC connected to each external switch. On the server profile, NIC 1 will be assigned to NetA and NIC 2 to NetB, At the OS level you can configure NIC teaming or Bonding, then if the connection between VC bay 1 and the external switch goes down, the OS will handle the failover, same behavior if the entire VC module goes down.

[Lmm_1]

Look at the scenario 11 or 12 of this cookbook:

http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01471917/c01471917.pdf

[ilayy]

so what you meant is both of the vc are active on the same time and what is failing over is just the web interface. my second question is can i connect an msa directly to an fc vc or it should be seperated by a san switch and here i ask fc vc support zoning?

[Lmm_1]

I think that you need the SAN switch the middle, someone else can confirm it here.

[kris rombauts]

The VC FC are not like a SAN switch, you cannot direct connect i.e. a disk array to it, as mentioned you do need a SAN switch in between.

HTH

Kris

[ilayy]

so if i use borcade san switch i will be able to connect it directly to the msa? and in which c3000 or c7000 switch bay can i install? can i install it in bay 1 and 2?

[The Brit]

The above replies are talking about using an external SAN switch as an intermediary between your FC VC modules and the storage sub-system. In this case, the SAN switch does not install in the c7000/c3000 enclosure.

There are SAN switch modules which can be plugged directly into the c7000/c3000, (e.g. Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch 8/12c - Switch - 12 ports - 8Gb Fibre Channel - plug-in module)
however this is not a "Virtual Connect" device, it would actually replace your VC FC modules and would not be configurable using VCM.

HTH

Dave.