Hi all,

I'd like to connect a StorEdge 3510 to a E3500. Since there aren't any 2
Gbit/s (SBUS) HBAs available from Sun, I'm planning to use stock JNI
FCE-1473 HBAs.

Has anyone been successful in using JNI cards (not Sun OEM'ed cards) with
the SAN Foundation Suite drivers? I'd like to try and take advantage of the
multipathing capabilities available in SFS. If I use the bundled JNI v.5.0
drivers, I'll have no multipathing support, unless I also use VxVM.

I shan't be using VxVM so I guess that STMS is my only alternative for
multipathing to the SE3510.

Any thoughts on this?

TIA
Andy



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Andy S <andy@avacom.net.nospam> wrote:
> I'd like to connect a StorEdge 3510 to a E3500. Since there aren't any 2
> Gbit/s (SBUS) HBAs available from Sun, I'm planning to use stock JNI
> FCE-1473 HBAs.

Why not just use the Sun 1Gb SBus Dual channel HBA (X6757A)? It's fully
supported for the E3500/3510 (it's the only card which is). The only
disadvantage is that's it's only 1Gb/port, but if you really need 2Gb/s
(and I doubt you do) then just run both ports on the card to the array.

Scott.