Sun Microsystems 3510 - Manual

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 3 Overview Fibre Channel Architecture The Sun StorEdge 3510 FC array RAID controller has six fibre channels that cansupport 1 or 2 Gb data transfer speeds. RAID controller channels 0, 1, 4, and 5 arenormally designated for connection to hosts or Fibr...

4 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 In a point-to-point configuration, only one ID can be assigned to each host channel.If more than one ID is assigned, the point-to-point protocol rules are violated. Anyhost channel with more than one ID will not be able to log in to an ...

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 5 With at least one LD assigned to each controller, both controllers are active. Thisconfiguration is known as an active-active controller configuration and allowsmaximum use of a dual controller array's resources. Each LD can be partitioned in up to...

6 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 Numerous controller parameters are also changed to optimize for sequential orrandom I/O. The change takes effect after the controller resets. Sequential or randomoptimization must be set prior to creating logical drives. There are two l...

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 7 ■ When your array is on a public network, it is susceptible to viruses, worms, andother malware attacks. ■ A variety of security software is available to detect and mitigate these attacks.Some port-scanning and other security software can have an a...

8 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 FIGURE 2 Two DAS Configurations The actual number of servers that can be connected varies according to the numberof Sun StorEdge 3510 FC array controllers. It also depends on the quantity of FibreChannel connections used for each server...

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 9 The SAN can also support multiple Sun StorEdge 3510 FC arrays. Increasing thenumber of StorEdge arrays makes more performance and capacity available withinthe storage network for sharing among the servers connected to the SAN. A SANalso provides gr...

10 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 FIGURE 3 Increasing Capacity First Steps There are two simple yet effective approaches for designing a Sun StorEdge 3510 FCarray solution into your environment. Both methods allow for the rapid estimationof an appropriate DAS or SAN so...

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 11 environment. For environments with different server configurations, choose thesolution that best matches the servers whose applications are mission-critical or mostimportant. General Configuration Considerations The entry-level configuration for a...

12 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 Non-Redundant DAS Configurations Note – Using single connections between Sun StorEdge 3510 SCSI arrays and servers creates single points of failure (SPOF) that can cause interruptions in theevent a connection becomes unreliable or fail...

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 13 Non-Redundant DAS Tips and Techniques ■ A Sun StorEdge 3510 FC array with a single controller can be configured tosupport up to four host connections. These connections can be used in pairs,individually, or in any combination of both. ■ You will n...

14 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 Non-Redundant DAS Setup Details FIGURE 5 Non-Redundant DAS Connections The general procedure for creating this configuration follows. 1. Check the position of installed SFP modules. Move or add SFP modules as necessary to support the c...

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 15 5. Map Logical Drive 0 to controller channel 0. 6. Map Logical Drive 1 (if created) to controller channel 5. 7. Map Logical Drive 2 (if created) to controller channel 1. 8. Map Logical Drive 3 (if created) to controller channel 4. 9. Connect the f...

16 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 High-Availability DAS Tips and Techniques ■ A Sun StorEdge 3510 FC array with two controllers can be configured to supportup to eight host connections. These connections can be used in pairs forredundancy, individually or in any combin...

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 17 High-Availability DAS Setup Details FIGURE 7 High-Availability DAS Connections The general procedure for creating this configuration follows. 1. Check the position of installed SFP modules. Move them as necessary to support the connections needed....

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 19 Full-Fabric SAN Configurations FIGURE 8 Typical Full-Fabric SAN Configuration TABLE 5 Configuration Overview for a Full-Fabric SAN Small Configuration Medium Configuration Large Configuration Number of Servers 2 to 4 2 to 14 2 to 62 RAID Enclosure...

20 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 Full-Fabric SAN Tips and Techniques ■ In the fabric SAN configuration, the switches communicate with the Sun StorEdge3510 FC array host ports using a fabric point-to-point (F_port) mode. This enablestransparent controller fail-over and...

Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array 23 High-Performance SAN Configurations FIGURE 10 Typical High-Performance SAN Configurations TABLE 7 Configuration Overview for High-Performance SAN Small Configuration Medium Configuration Large Configuration Number of Servers 2 to 4 2 to 14 2 to 62...

24 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 High-Performance SAN Tips and Techniques ■ In the high-performance SAN configuration, the switches communicate with theSun StorEdge 3510 FC array host ports using a fabric loop (FL_port) mode. Thisenables every Fibre Channel host conne...

26 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • October 2003 2. Connect expansion units if needed. 3. Configure cache optimization. 4. Ensure fibre connection option set to loop mode. 5. Configure target IDs. 6. Create at least two logical drives and configure spare disks. 7. Create one or more ...