[Info-vax] eva and switch zoning

[pcoviello at gmail.com]

On Saturday, October 6, 2012 9:16:17 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2012-10-05 20:12:46 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:
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> > I don't disagree, we have no plans in place to put anything else on 
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> > these switches, but HP's position is it is our recommendation and that 
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> > we should also change parameters for vms that may not exist. no one can 
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> > verify them!
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> > so I have a 30 minute cache freeze when I do my snapclones and the copy 
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> > command is the right way.
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> > and by zoning it will/might improve performance
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> > sorry I'm not buying it..
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> There seem to be some other issues here.
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> Start with a (free) nntp/news account on 
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> http://www.eternal-september.org and get yourself off of the Grog-adled 
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> Groups stuff.
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> Then, are you having issues with your FC SAN copies or related task?  
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> If you are engaging with HP support here, why?   HP very likely wants 
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> zoning for if/when you have piles of hosts on that FC SAN.  But you 
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> shouldn't be scanning the fabric - or the rest of the performance 
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> baggage - at all regularly, etc.
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> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

My initial question to hp was am I using the right command in creating my snaps (I'm using add copy) a shop I had been in before seemed quicker than the 30 minutes it's taking me.  so they wanted a log/info from each switch and controller log dumps after looking at that they came back and said that hp recommends ... and a quote of almost $1500 to have an engineer on site to configure them with no guarantee that it will help seems pointless for two vms systems...