Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:44:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fibre Channel Controller [ LONG RESPONSE ] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907140042470.10471-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <19990714010440.A11885@futuresouth.com>
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> > The switch configuration *can* work (it's early days for the code I put > > in), but all that really does is join together multiple loops such that if > > I query the Fabric name server and get list of disks back, I can 'map' > > them to loop ID's such that the Qlogic knows they're not on the local > > loop. This picture looks like, e.g.: > > Actually I mentioned the switch because as far as I know you can > configure it in such a way that the host will never see disks that it's > not intended for. That should isolate the hosts from each other even if > FC id's go in and out? It is analogous to VLAN on ethernet. I believe you're referring to a Brocade feature- zoning. It's possible that other switches have that feature too. > > We will probably look into that again soon. We need [HW] RAID on a > handful of machines and I would rather spend the money on a couple of good > storage arrays instead of buying one for each machine. NFS is out for > our environment. > > Would you happen to have a host-independent (stand-alone) FC RAID > controller that you can recommend? Not that I know well enough to swear by. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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