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Switch zoning requirements – Dell PowerVault MD3260i User Manual

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Figure 4. Fibre/iSCSI Channel Multi-path Configuration

Switch Zoning Requirements

Switches used in a fibre-channel and iSCSI configuration must employ zoning. These switch zoning requirements must
be observed:

Each host bus adapter (HBA) on the host server must connect to a separate switch zone; no more than one HBA

may be connected to one logical switch zone.

Port 3 on each of the MD storage array controller is reserved for Remote Replication. This is required for fibre-

channel only. iSCSI does not require any dedicated port.

For fibre-channel, a separate zone must be created for each Remote Replication port.

No more than four data paths (port-to-port segments) can be established from a single, physical host server to a

single RAID controller.

For additional MD storage array zoning information, see

Configuring Fibre Channel With Dell MD3600f Series Storage

Arrays

available at dell.com/support.

For additional VMware-related zoning information, see

VMware Fibre Channel SAN Configuration Guide

at vmware.com/

support/product-support.

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