SAN

[hari prasad_4]

hi,


Can anyone tell me what are all the steps involved in configuring a an FC switch in SAN environment. I don't need command instead i need to know only the proceedure.

thanks in advance

[Bhanu Edupuganti]

Hello Hari,

Unfortunately, there is a lot more to this in SAN environment depending on what kind of topology are you using, what kind of switches how many fabrics, high availability requirements, is it a multi vendor SAN ?

Let us know what type of environment you have and I can point you in the right direction.

In a most basic core-edge topology with redundant fabrics, you would have atleast 2 core switches and 2 edge switches one of each would be in 'A' fabric. to configure, you would use the configuration tools provided by the Vendor (Brocade, Cisco and/or McData and so on). Configure the TCP/IP details for monitoring/managing. Once this is done for all the switches and are able to connect to them, you are ready to set it up for zoning. Zoning is a whole different subject ranging from hard,soft and mixed and is beyond the scope of this question. You can find good information by googling. Anyways, zoning helps you restrict un-authorized access to/from devices in a Fabric. And you would have to do device level masking to further enhance the un-authorized access to/from devices. Hopefully, this gave you some information, based on which you can find out more on the web or by attending some swithch vendor specific classes.

Bhanu

[Ivan Ferreira]

The procedure depends of your configurations requirements, topology, hardware used, and so on.

A good point to start is to identify the requirements of your SAN in terms of performance, availability, flexibility, zoning.

This is a good document that you can start with:

"HP StorageWorks SAN Design Reference Guide"

Available at:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&locale=en_US&docIndexId=179911&taskId=101&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=406734