IBM DS3000, DS5000, DS4000 manual Mid-sized MAC Homogenous StorNext configuration

Mid-sized “MAC Homogenous” StorNext configuration

MetaData Ethernet Network

Apple

OSX

XSAN

Client

	HBA		HBA
	Celerity	Celerity
FC-81EN,		FC-81EN,
FC-82EN,		FC-82EN,
or FC-84EN		or FC-84EN
Driver: .3.1b12		Driver: .3.1b12

Apple

OSX

XSAN

Client

HBA

Celerity

FC-81EN,

FC-82EN,

or FC-84EN

Driver: .3.1b12

LINUX

STORNEXT

Meta Data

Controller

RHEL or SLES

RDAC

HBA

Standard supported

Emulex or Qlogic

LINUX

STORNEXT

Meta Data

Controller

RHEL or SLES

RDAC

HBA

Standard supported

Emulex or Qlogic

Apple

OSX

XSAN

Client

HBA

Celerity

FC-81EN,

FC-82EN,

or FC-84EN

Driver: .3.1b12

Apple

OSX

XSAN

Client

HBA

Celerity

FC-81EN,

FC-82EN,

or FC-84EN

Driver: .3.1b12

Zone 1			Zone 2
Controller A	FibreChannel Switch	FibreChannel Switch	Controller B
And all host			And all host
ports			ports

Controller A

DS5020

Back

Controller B

DS5020

Front

EXP520

(optional)

EXP520

(optional)

Up to 112 drives maximum

Example 3. In this example diagram Linux MDC Servers are shown, but only MAC Xsan Clients are shown. DS5020 connected to meshed SAN fabric with a minimum of two Fibre Channel switches. For DS5020 configurations, Multiple Fibre Channel switches are not required, but they are recommended. Drawing shows minimal SAN to DS5020 connections to simplify the drawing. However, up to 8 connections are supported. In this example, the Meta data Controllers each have a single dual ported HBA. Also in this example multiple HIC cards on the DS5020 are used to increase resiliency.

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