Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 and 3511 FC Arrays
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1 Refer to Table 1 to determine how many physical drives can be included in one logical drive.
High-Performance SAN Tips and Techniques
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In the fabric SAN configuration, the switches communicate with the array host
ports using a fabric point-to-point (F_port) mode. This enables transparent
controller fail-over and fail-back without server-resident software. However,
supporting hot-swap servicing of a failed controller requires the use of
multipathing software, such as the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager, on the
connected servers.
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Use of fabric point-to-point (F_port) connections between an array and fabric
switches limits to 128 the total number of LUNs that can be presented. Fibre
channel standards allow only one ID per port when operating point-to-point
protocols, resulting in a maximum of four IDs, with a maximum of 32 LUNs each,
supporting up to 128 LUNs.
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When a fabric switch is connected to one port of channel 0 or channel 1 of a Sun
StorEdge 3511 SATA array, no connections can be made with the other three ports
of that channel. If channel 0 (port FC0) is connected to a fabric switch, for
example, the second port for channel 0 on that controller, and the FC0 ports on a
Number of Disks
12 or more
12 or more
12 or more
Cache Optimization
(Sun StorEdge 3510
FC array)
Random or sequential
Random or sequential
Random or sequential
Cache Optimization
(Sun StorEdge 3511
SATA array)
Sequential
Sequential
Sequential
RAID Levels
Application-dependent
Application-dependent
Application-dependent
Fibre connection
option
Point-to-point only
Point-to-point only
Point-to-point only
Drive configuration
Two or more LUNs with
two or more global spares
1
Two or more LUNs with
two or more global spares
1
Two or more LUNs with
two or more global spares
1
Host Adapters per
server
Dual-port 2-Gbit FC
Dual-port 2-Gbit FC
Dual-port 2-Gbit FC
Traffic Manager
Required
Required
Required
Storage Switches
Two 8-port 2-Gbit
FC fabric switches
Two 16-port 2-Gbit
FC fabric switches
Two 32-port 2-Gbit
FC fabric switches
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Configuration Overview for High-Performance SAN
(Continued)
Small Configuration
Medium Configuration
Large Configuration
