That is correct. Any port that is an initiator can be used for VADP SAN Transport, as long as you have it zoned properly. That's always a pre-requisite to it actually working :smileyhappy:
5230 appliance will only act as media server .. there's another master server in the environment , but basically appliance will do almost all of work as it's a backuphost for vmware and media server for SAN clients , and accoringly i need to use tapeout from appliance ,
i will use SLp and try to disribute traffic as possible .
so basically my question is that while having 3 dual HBA's ... and having requirments illustrated above .
Is this the best allocation for ports for best performance ,
- SAN client uses 2 HBA's in slot 5,6 ... i need remainig 2 ports in those HBAs that's why i will assign port1 only on HBAs in slot 5,6 .
- Tapeout function is confusing for me , in appliance fibre channel guide 2.7.3 pg 68 it's mentioning hba should be in slot 3 however in rest of article slot4,5,6 can work for tape out .
- i'm disributing tapeout and netbckup for vmware on remaing ports on the 3 HBA cards as ilustrated above ..
As per attached doc. , only slots 5,6 can be used for vmware unlike what's mentioned in the 2.7.3 fibre channel guide . also i need to confirm if slots 5,6 can be used for tapeout , because as per 2.7.3 fibre guide pg 68 , slot 3 only is assigned for this task .
I need to confirm if port assigmnet i made is correct .. and if there's other configuration steps needed other than the steps i mentioned ... "i.e. : zoning and enabling san Clinets"
Okay, I see where that might be confusing, but let's be clear -- the only ports/HBAs that are reserved for a specific purpose is the FTMS/SAN Client functionality associated with the HBAs in slots 5 and 6. I'll point you to the supported configurations per slot starting at page 26 of the same guide. If you note on the QRC, the red asterisk and the blue asterisks are on the ports for cards 5 & 6 as well as the other cards, indicating that you can do target OR initiator on those ports.
To enable FTMS/SAN Client, you go into the appliance CLISH at Settings>Network>Fibre Transport and enable 2 port FTMS (that path is off the top of my head, so double check it). You then need to enable SAN Client on the clients themselves as you noted. Check out Chapter 3 (I think) of the FC guide for the instructions on this, I'm pretty sure it is all documented and points to other docs for more detailed descriptions.
Any port that is configured as an initiator can be used for tape out, VMware backups and FC replication.
Thanks alot for the repy , so in essense any port in slot 4,5,6 can be used for tapeout ,
And to use appliance as a backup host for vmware "for off-host backup" ,port need to be in intiator mode "i.e : any port in slot 4,5,6"
right ?
That is correct. Any port that is an initiator can be used for VADP SAN Transport, as long as you have it zoned properly. That's always a pre-requisite to it actually working :smileyhappy:
