NetApp and Hitachi SAN

I have a Solaris 9 server attached to a SAN fabric using two Silkworms 3850 with two emulex LP9002L-F2 cards. Presently there is a Hitachi 9500V storage presenting LUNs to the Sol9 server without any problems. We aquired two Netapp Filers 3820c that are attached to the SAN fabric. The server uses Veritas FS 4.1 and vxdmp for failover.

My question is:

Do I need separate HBA cards for each storage? one set for hitachi and one set for NetApp ? Or just the existing HBAs will do as long as the NetApp presents luns to it ?The NetApp techie says you can not access more than one storage at a time. Is either All hitachi or all SAN.

Please shed some light!.

Thanks in advanced.

[707 byte] By [silvexa] at [2007-11-27 2:40:57]

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# 1

There is what works.There is what is supported.It probably works to present the NetApp LUNs to the same HBAs that are accessing the SAN. However, if NetApp says it isn't supported .... then you need to ask them why.

torreysuna at 2007-7-12 3:04:16 >

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# 2

He said he has never done it ? So what is the point of having a SAN fabric if you can only use the HBA card for one vendor ?

silvexa at 2007-7-12 3:04:17 >

# 3

I agree. However, the storage vendor gets to decide what is supported or not. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work but you'd have to bring that up with NetApp.

torreysuna at 2007-7-12 3:04:17 >

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