FAS3220 and FAS2240 direct attach on fabric interconnect 6296UP

[satyrjosue]

Hello everybody

I have the following architecture

1 Cisco Catalyst 6509-E

1 Cisco Catalyst 3560-x

2 Fabric Interconnect 6296UP

1 FAS 3220 (principal storage)

1 FAS2240 (vault backup)

1 chasis cisco UCS 5108

5 blade servers Cisco UCS B200M3

Firmware version: 2.2(3c)

Fabric Interconnect are direct attach on fabric interconnect 6296up and the ports are configurated as FC storage ports

My question is the following:

Can I zoning fabric interconnect with FAS3220 and FAS2240?

Can I present LUNS of FAS2240 and FAS3220 at the same time on the same boot policy, same san boot policy, and the same organization?

Thanks for your help

[Marcin Latosiewicz · Accepted solution]

You can do zoning on UCS:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-infrastructure-ucs-manager-software/116082-config-ucs-das-00.html

whether that's really a best practice...

FC sees WWNNs and WWPNs.

What would be the purpose of pointing boot to both the 2 3220s and the 2240? 

[satyrjosue]

Hi Marcin, thanks for your help

The purpose of pointing to both NetApp devices was thinking in case of disaster, for example, if FAS3220 fail, FAS2240 is up with new LUNS

I've read some Cisco articles and this case is impossible.

[Marcin Latosiewicz]

Well, even if that was possible. You're accounting for a critical failure - i.e. a failure of two redundant devices (both 3220s, which I would have assume would be running in a cluster ... or 7mode). 

While just upstream you have a single cat 6500 - which would be a single point of failure. 

Logic would dictate to account for a single device failure all across the path before looking into multi-device failure.