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Connecting Violin Memory Arrays to IBM AIX and PowerVM

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3.4 SAN Configuration and Zoning

The following best practices are recommended:

• Set the SAN topology to Point-to-Point

• Set the port speed of the Switch port to 8 GB for Violin Targets

• On Brocade 8 GB Switches, please set the fillword setting to 3 for ports connected to Violin Targets.

# portcfgfillword <port> 3

3.4.1 Zoning Best Practices

• Configure WWPN based zoning or WWPN based Aliases

• Limit HBA ports (Initiators) in a zone to one. For instance, there should not be multiple Initiators in a single

zone

• Each HBA port (initiator) can be zoned to multiple Targets ( Violin WWPN Ports)

• Limit the number of paths as seen by the host to an allowable number. For example if you have 2 HBA ports

out of your server, zone each HBA port to 2 unique target ports on each gateway. I.e. avoid putting all target

ports into one zone.

• The ideal number of paths to a MPIO node is 2 or 4 paths. Adding more paths adds more resilience, but

does not yield better performance.

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