[TriLUG] iSCSI to FC SAN connectivity

[Matt Pusateri]

How are you getting the data from your FC SAN at the main datacenter to the iSCSI SAN at the offsite data center? Are you replicating/syncing data between the two?  Or are you planning to physically move you're FC SAN to the offsite datacenter.  Are the SAN's from the same vendor?

The ESX servers in the main data center will have FC HBA cards vs. iSCSI HBA's or regular NIC's(1G or 10G) at your offsite datacenter.  From the ESX side of things, your ESX server will just see them as  VMFS volumes presented on the LUNS presented by your SAN.  If you're replicating data between the two sites over the wire, you'll probably be fine as long as you can replicate data between the two SANs.

More specifics  of your SAN intentions would help.

Matt P.

On Apr 18, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Chris Bullock wrote:

> Please forgive my ignorance on this subject but I would like to see what my options are.
> We currently have an iSCSI only SAN.  I am planning to move to a FC and iSCSI SAN in the next few months.  My question is the following:
> I want to move my VMWare farm at my main datacenter to FC, my question is, for some reason I lose my FC ESX servers at my main data center, can I use my iSCSI ESX servers at my offsite data center to connect to the FC LUNS that my VMs will be living on? ie, Is there a way to publish a LUN as FC and iSCSI?
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