01-12-2016 02:30 PM
I'm looking to setup a pair of MDS 9148S switches in a high available configuration. I came across a post on the forums, where someone stated you won't trunk the switches, that you would simply create two separate fabrics. Servers and SAN(in our case an EMC XtremIO) would then be dual homed to the switches. So you would basically create two separate VSANs, VSAN 10 for MDS SW1 and VSAN 20 for MDS SW2.
Is this best practice, and the recommended method to follow? I'm just wondering how others have setup this configuration, and any recommendation they might have for a stabled HA setup for the SAN environment.
Cheers,
01-12-2016 02:32 PM
yes, that is what you want , two completely isolated fabrics. How many Xbricks ?
01-12-2016 02:37 PM
We just have one 10TB Xbrick to start.
Now would that be the same case if you were to use Nexus 5Ks?
01-12-2016 02:39 PM
same, assuming you are using FC ports on 5Ks.
01-12-2016 02:41 PM
take a look at page 17 and down
https://support.emc.com/docu56210_XtremIO-Host-Configuration-Guide.pdf?language=en_US
01-12-2016 02:46 PM
That's what I needed. Thank you very much dynamoxxx! As always you are super helpful!! Much appreciated!!
01-12-2016 02:47 PM
good luck Evan and enjoy XtremIO ..very nice box.
01-28-2016 04:59 PM
I'm finalizing some of my notes, and I wanted to clarify for the N5Ks if we were going to use iSCSI would I then need to create a port-channel? I'm curious to learn why one way and not the other.
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