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Fiber Channel Q&A

Article ID: 572
Last updated: 29 Jul, 2009

1) The one we have seem to have 2 ports available . Is it possible to have more than 2 servers connected to it?
>>> Yes, each port has it's own WWN.
 
2) If customer gets a FC switch, can all of his servers which connected to the FC switch will be able to use FC targets on the Open-E units?
>>> Yes, all FC Initiator will be able to use FC target. It works in the same way as network switch
 
 
3) We had problems with iSCSI resets, and I was wondering whether the FC targets are reset-free ? ( please let us know of any known issues in this regard)
>>> FC targets are reseted under some actions like changing group or reassigning WWNs
 
 
4) If we partition a new volume, will it reset all FC connections as it did for iSCSI?
>>> DSS V6 has a fix for this with using SCST
 
 
5) Can FC volumes be replicated to secondary SAN just like any other volumes?
>>> Same as the NAS and iSCSI in manual mode but via IP
 
 
6) Is there built-in failover for FC targets ?
>>> No, there is no failover for FC yet

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