06-08-2016 10:20 AM
Moving to Cisco for our SAN for the first time (used Brocade and McData before that); I can clearly see a benefit of device aliases vs. fc aliases, but I'm not sure if I should enable Enhanced aliases or just leave them as Basic.
We have just only two fabrics, one switch each; the only other fab switches are in the back of Dell chassis and are in Access Gateway mode so they aren't really a part of the fabric. I don't see this changing anytime in the foreseeable future.
The config guide sort of helps but doesn't expound on it very deeply.
06-08-2016 09:54 PM
Hi
See http://sanjourny.blogspot.ch/2013/05/device-alias-database.html
and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5989/prod_troubleshooting_guide_chapter09186a00808348bc.html#wp67213
Operate device aliases in enhanced mode whenever possible. In enhanced mode, applications accept the device alias name in its "native" format, rather than expanding the alias to a pWWN. Because applications such as zone server, IVR, PSM, and DPVM automatically track and enforce device alias membership changes, you have a single point of change.
06-09-2016 07:15 AM
Thanks Walter.
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