><It there a PDF with good practice with san administration ?

Read this for knowing best practice for zoning.

bcfp.brocadeclub.com.cn/downloads/Zoning_Best_Practices.pdf

@hemant,

you are usually the Parrot this Community.

I would Love to know, what is they goal and reason to Post same Comment in all the Threads.

Hello Patrick,

are you running single NetApp filer head or clustered systems?

Which model are you using and how many target and initiator ports are in your system.

NetApp recommends to use dedicated cards as initiators for disk shelf attachment which are not connected to the SAN and the onboard ports as targets ports.

Onboard cards 0a and 0b are within the same ASIC.  0c and 0d share another ASIC. If you have dual fabric design connect 0a and 0b to fabric 1 and 0c and 0d to the second fabric.

If you have a dual fabric design and the servers are connected to both fabrics I prefer to zone like following example:

Fabric 1

zone 1: server1_1, NetappA_0a

zone 2: server1_1, NetappB_0a

zone 3: server2_1, NetappA_0b

zone 4: server2_1, NetappB_0b

Fabric 2

zone 1: server1_2, NetappA_0c

zone 2: server1_2, NetappB_0c

zone 3: server2_2, NetappA_0d

zone 4: server2_2, NetappB_0d

NetAppA and NetAppB are configured as a Cluster in Single Image mode. All servers are using NetApp MPIO package or the DSM module.

Take care that you are not using the proxy pathes to access the LUNs within the filer. This will slowdown the performance.

Andreas