Hi Leadius, You make great content! Do you have an email that I can contact you with? I got a 3PAR 8200 and would like some advice. I don't know if I should continue with a fiber channel setup, or sell the controller nodes and install use it as a jbod instead. Thanks.
@@leadiususa7394 I should elaborate a little. I have the 8200 2 node controllers, which provide both the fiber channel and iscsi capabilities, but I don't know what the 2 node controllers are for if the enclosures can be connected to a SAS HBA card directly. It just feels like a waste if I don't utilize the expensive node controllers. 😅 And what do you mean by JBOD on IP? Do you mean use the iscsi connector?
@@iisimaginary Well, it you get a HP Controller set you can setup a dual path dual part 4 way fail over but I choose just to do a single dual path fail over for my needs for I am not doing a enterprise level 4 way fail over that require multi vendor ISP services for BGP type usage. But go for it if you want
@@leadiususa7394 I see, so the 4 FC / 4 ISCSI controllers are for a potential 4 way fail over, what an amazing infrastructure! Then it seems like selling the 2 node controllers for a 2 port HBA card, and use the enclosure as a JBOD is the best route. What about the JBOD on IP? I thought the enclosures only had 2 DP (Mini SAS) connections, and not IP based connections?
@@iisimaginary That should be done but only at the dual fail over loop. Not 4 way but you don't need with with Min-SAS or SAS, Juast two paths is needed. .
Hi Leadius, You make great content! Do you have an email that I can contact you with?
I got a 3PAR 8200 and would like some advice. I don't know if I should continue with a fiber channel setup, or sell the controller nodes and install use it as a jbod instead. Thanks.
Best to JBOD on IP and skip FC. Less cost and headache
@@leadiususa7394 I should elaborate a little. I have the 8200 2 node controllers, which provide both the fiber channel and iscsi capabilities, but I don't know what the 2 node controllers are for if the enclosures can be connected to a SAS HBA card directly. It just feels like a waste if I don't utilize the expensive node controllers. 😅
And what do you mean by JBOD on IP? Do you mean use the iscsi connector?
@@iisimaginary Well, it you get a HP Controller set you can setup a dual path dual part 4 way fail over but I choose just to do a single dual path fail over for my needs for I am not doing a enterprise level 4 way fail over that require multi vendor ISP services for BGP type usage. But go for it if you want
@@leadiususa7394 I see, so the 4 FC / 4 ISCSI controllers are for a potential 4 way fail over, what an amazing infrastructure! Then it seems like selling the 2 node controllers for a 2 port HBA card, and use the enclosure as a JBOD is the best route. What about the JBOD on IP? I thought the enclosures only had 2 DP (Mini SAS) connections, and not IP based connections?
@@iisimaginary That should be done but only at the dual fail over loop. Not 4 way but you don't need with with Min-SAS or SAS, Juast two paths is needed. .