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  • Two Fibre connections at once

    Posted by Matt Callac on June 15, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    I’m building a new system for FCP and was looking at getting a Fibre RAID. My boss tells me that there is a chance that down the line we’ll be getting some sort of SAN for shared media. I was wanting to know about Quad-channel Fibre cards and if that would be the best option for multiple fibre connections. Are there any problems/things we should know about this kind of set up? Is there a better more reliable option? Money’s not really that big of a deal, but we don’t want to end up spending 4k more for set up to access a local array and the SAN and then end up not getting a SAN after all. Guess i’m looking to minimize the amount of wasted money in case we don’t end up getting a SAN. thanks in advance.
    -mattyc

    P.S. I’m cross posting this on another cow Forum but will be sure to post the resutls from the other forum back into this one.

    Matt Callac replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Szumlins

    June 15, 2007 at 9:28 pm

    A couple of ways you can do this

    1) Multiport card
    2) Switch zoning

    I’m not going to go into the nuts and bolts/bells and whistles as to which one works well and which doesn’t because EVERY san system is going to play a little differently further down the road.



    -Mike

  • Matt Callac

    June 18, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Thanks mike, this is exactly what I needed.
    -mattyc

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  • Matt Callac

    June 18, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    Thanks for all the help guys. Here’s the links to responses on the other boards.

    SANnetworks
    https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/197/855049?
    Apple FCP
    https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/942357?

    Raising money for Blood:Water Mission to help build wells in Africa. I’m
    putting my hair on the line to raise some money.
    Check it out https://rattail.callac.com

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