Best Zonning practise

[owahid]

Hello

I have a storage system 3par that contain two controllers each controller have two  fc ports

I have two hp servers each server conatin one FC HBA card , each card contain two ports.

Suppose that I used the following Alieces on the Brocade SAN Sw:

3par storage : Controller1 port1 : c1p1         controller1port2 : c1p2    controller2port1: c2p1   controller2p2: c2p2

HP server1 :   HBA Port1: S1P1   HBA Port2: S1P2 

HP Server2:  HBA Port1: S2P1    HBA Port2: S2P2

My question what is the best zonning to do from the following:

One initiator , all targets

One initiator , one target

or what??!!
First zonning will be:

Zone1

S1P1  C1P1 C2P1

S1P2 C2P1 C2P2

Zone2:

S1P1 C2P1 C2P2

S1P2 C1P1 C2P1

What about if I but all wwpns of storage and servers under one alies and put this alies into one zone would it be correct or it have impact on performance

[Cali]

Hi,

it's not clear, do you have two SAN Switches?

This Guide will help you: Document - HPE SAN Design Reference Guide | HPE Support

Page 200/331: Zoning by HBA is required when used in a heterogeneous SAN, including other operating systems
and other storage system families or types.

And HPE 3PAR Storage best practices guide

Page 8-11

Cali

[owahid]

yes I have two switches

each one is seperate theier is no one master and other slave

could ou specidy what is the best zonning to do

just a simple and direct answer

kindly do not send a book of hundereds of pages

If you are going to do mthat zonning wwhat are you going to do??

[sbhat09]

Hello @owahid,

Among Zone1 and Zone2 you specified, I recommend Zone1 for better redundancy.

I think the Zone1 you wrote is partially inaccurate. Please consider the below:

Zone1:

S1P1  C1P1 C2P1
S1P2 C1P2 C2P2

Let me know if you have more questions on this.

Regards,
Srinivas Bhat

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[sbhat09]

Hello @owahid,

Hope that answers your query. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,
Srinivas Bhat

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