MA8000 and EVA4400 on same SAN/Fabric ?

[George Quist]

Was wondering...

we will be moving off our current MA8000 (HSG80 ) arrays to a new EVA4400 at some point..Looking for some thoughts/experiance having both type storage arrays on the same SAN/Fabric ? We are using HP SANSwitch 2/32 ( Brocade 3900 ) type switch options and older Brocade 2800's.. The 2800's will go away with the MA8000's.. the Brocade 3900's will stay for a while , perhaps change to 4Gb switch options at some point in time.. Oh Yea, we wil be injecting a HP c3000 blade configuration also soon... What a ride !!! Any inputs welcome! Thank you...

[Rob Leadbeater · Accepted solution]

Hi George,

As long as everything is appropriately zoned, I don't see why there should be any issues.

I've had a couple of HSG80s and a couple of EVA5000s on the same fabric previously without any issues.

Cheers,

Rob

P.S. Please remember to assign points...

[George Quist]

Thanks Rob... Intent would be to ONLY have the MA's be online for data moves to EVA volumes...

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

What operating systems are you running on the HSGs ?

The last time I looked, the EVA4400s were a little restrictive in their support of some of the more legacy OSs out there, which I guess might affect you as you're still on the MA8000s.

Cheers,

Rob

[George Quist]

Rob,

about 95% Windows 2003, a few Windows 2000's and I think there are 2 Sun Solaris servers..and .. The backup server is also a Sun V480 Solaris / Legato box.

Sorry.. Not an OpenVms box left in the house ( of Vax,Alpha, or newer Itanium fame! )

We are an old Digital-->Quantum--> Maxtor--now Seagate site in Shrewsbury Mass..

Will also admit to many 36 bit Decsystem10/20 and PDP 11's rides back in the early 80's