Hi ITSM'rs, I have a new fiber attached 3590 implementation that I would like advice on. I'm not a SAN architect nor an AIX admin (two strikes?)so I'd like the opinion of anyone that has a similiar infrastructure in place.
I will have 16 3590-E1A drives attached to two McData switches using each of the fiber connectors in each drive. Each of the McData switches are connected to a seperate Connectrix director. From the AIX TSM host I have 3 HBA's going to each of the Connectrix boxes (total of six). I'd like to configure for availability and performance. I'd like to exploit failover capabilities along with any kind of load balancing I may be able to obtain. My dilema is how to configure the drives to AIX. Would it be best to group drives and distribute them across the HBA's defining a single primary and redundant path. Or would it be best to pool all the HBA's and define primary and alternate paths to each of the drives on each HBA (16x6 devices)? I'd appreciate any input from anyone that has a similiar configuration in place or can lead me to any information that will assist me. Many thanks, Rodney Hroblak ADP __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
