As Matthew Jacob wrote ... > > > > FYI: The Compaq HSG80 Fibrechannel RAID controllers have their > > WWN in NVRAM. One is supposed to get the WWN from a label on the *cabinet* > > into the HSG controller. This allows for easy hardware swap in case of > > hardware grief. > > Yes, if you want the WWN to stay constant.
Well, you do. Especially when you are using things like zoning (like that Brocade switches can do) or when the host directly ties things to the wwn it talks to. E.g. for connection to Sun we use Jaycor adapters that allow things like "target=foo lun=bar www="<64bitnumber>" in the Solaris /kernel/drv/sd.conf file -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
