zoning

[medali.benchaabane]

we have two windows servers connected to an MSA SAN switch. an ESL322 library is connected to a Brocade SAN switch

the two switches are connected to an MPR.

How should i create zones in two switches to allow windows servers to view drives on the ESL library ?

[Sheldon Smith]

For each Windows server which you want to have access to the library, simply add the (alias of the) tape library's fibre port to the existing zone of that server. There is no point in creating a second zone for each server. Each server is already communicating with its storage; you simply want to expand the list of storage devices with which it can work.

Hope this helps.


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[Amar_Joshi]

Hi Medali,

You will have to create separate LSAN zones for this configuration.

On MSA SAN switch you create "LSAN_zone1" with server and tape library's WWNs. then on Brocade SAN Switch create the "LSAN_zone1" with same members. This should work. There is a very good book available to understand the MPRs and LSAN

Principles of SAN Design Book (2006 Edition) â Josh Judd & Dan Krueger

Available at Amazon and other stores.