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Any caveats of Enhanced Device Aliases in a simple fabric?

lpphiggp
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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. 

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Walter Dey
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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.

Thanks Walter.

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