Fibre Channel and iSCSI Configuration Guide for the Data ONTAP® 8.0 Release Family NetApp, Inc. 495 East Java Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 U.S. Telephone: +1 (408) 822-6000 Fax: +1 (408) 822-4501 Support telephone: +1 (888) 463-8277 Web: www.netapp.com Feedback: [email protected] Part number: 215-08164_A0 August 2013 Table of Contents | 3 Contents iSCSI configurations .................................................................................... 6 Single-network HA pair in an iSCSI SAN .................................................................. 6 Multi-network HA pair in an iSCSI SAN ................................................................... 7 Direct-attached single-controller configurations in an iSCSI SAN ............................ 8 VLANs for iSCSI configurations ................................................................................ 9 Static VLANs ................................................................................................ 10 Dynamic VLANs ........................................................................................... 10 Fibre Channel configurations .................................................................... 11 FC onboard and expansion port combinations .......................................................... 11 Fibre Channel supported hop count .......................................................................... 12 Fibre Channel supported speeds ................................................................................ 13 Fibre Channel switch configuration best practices ................................................... 13 Host multipathing software requirements ................................................................. 14 62xx supported fibre channel configurations ............................................................ 14 62xx target port configuration recommendations ......................................... 14 62xx: Single-controller configurations .......................................................... 15 62xx: Single-fabric HA configurations ......................................................... 16 62xx: Multifabric HA configurations ............................................................ 18 62xx: Direct-attached single-controller configuration .................................. 19 62xx: Direct-attached HA configurations ..................................................... 20 60xx supported configurations .................................................................................. 21 60xx target port configuration recommendations ......................................... 21 60xx: Single-controller configurations .......................................................... 22 60xx: Single-fabric HA pair .......................................................................... 24 60xx: Multifabric HA pair ............................................................................. 26 60xx: Direct-attached single-controller configuration .................................. 27 60xx: Direct-attached HA pair ...................................................................... 28 32xx supported fibre channel configurations ............................................................ 30 32xx target port configuration recommendations ......................................... 30 32xx: Single-controller configurations .......................................................... 30 32xx: Single-fabric HA configurations ......................................................... 32 32xx: Multifabric HA configurations ............................................................ 33 4 | Fibre Channel and iSCSI Configuration Guide for the Data ONTAP 8.0 Release Family 32xx: Direct-attached single-controller configurations ................................. 34 32xx: Direct-attached HA configurations ..................................................... 35 31xx supported fibre channel configurations ............................................................ 36 31xx target port configuration recommendations ......................................... 37 31xx: Single-controller configurations .......................................................... 37 31xx: Single-fabric HA pair .......................................................................... 39 31xx: Multifabric HA pair ............................................................................. 40 31xx: Direct-attached single-controller configurations ................................. 41 31xx: Direct-attached HA pair ...................................................................... 43 30xx supported configurations .................................................................................. 44 30xx target port configuration recommendations ......................................... 44 3040 and 3070 supported configurations ...................................................... 44 FAS2040 supported configurations ........................................................................... 51 FAS2040: Single-fabric single-controller configuration ............................... 51 FAS2040: Single-fabric HA pair ................................................................... 52 FAS2040: Multifabric single-controller configuration ................................. 53 FAS2040: Multifabric HA pair ..................................................................... 54 FAS2040: Direct-attached single-controller configurations ......................... 55 FAS2040: Direct-attached HA pair ............................................................... 55 Fibre Channel over Ethernet overview .................................................... 57 FCoE initiator and target combinations .................................................................... 57 Fibre Channel over Ethernet supported hop count .................................................... 58 Fibre Channel over Ethernet supported configurations ............................................. 58 FCoE: FCoE initiator to FC target configuration .......................................... 59 FCoE: FCoE end-to-end configuration ......................................................... 61 FCoE mixed with FC ..................................................................................... 62 FCoE mixed with IP storage protocols ......................................................... 64 Fibre Channel and FCoE zoning .............................................................. 66 Port zoning ................................................................................................................ 66 World Wide Name-based zoning .............................................................................. 67 Individual zones ........................................................................................................ 67 Single-fabric zoning .................................................................................................. 67 Dual-fabric HA pair zoning ....................................................................................... 68 Shared SAN configurations ....................................................................... 70 ALUA configurations ................................................................................. 71 Configuration limits for FC, FCoE, and iSCSI configurations .............. 72 Table of Contents | 5 SAN Configuration limit parameters and definitions ............................................... 72 Host operating system limits for SAN configurations .............................................. 73 62xx single-controller limits ..................................................................................... 74 62xx HA configuration limits ................................................................................... 75 32xx single-controller limits ..................................................................................... 76 32xx HA configuration limits ................................................................................... 77 60xx and 31xx single-controller limits ...................................................................... 78 60xx and 31xx HA pair limits ................................................................................... 79 30xx single-controller limits ..................................................................................... 80 30xx HA pair limits ................................................................................................... 81 FAS2040 single-controller limits .............................................................................. 82 FAS2040 HA pair configuration limits ..................................................................... 83 Calculating queue depth ............................................................................................ 84 Setting queue depths on AIX hosts ............................................................... 86 Setting queue depths on HP-UX hosts .......................................................... 86 Setting queue depths on LINUX hosts .......................................................... 87 Setting queue depths on Solaris hosts ........................................................... 87 Setting queue depths on VMware hosts ........................................................ 88 Setting queue depths on Windows hosts ....................................................... 89 Copyright information ..............................................................................