topic Re: FAS Fibre Channel HBA Trunking in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/53001#M3782 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Through fc zoning, you can restrict which storage ports the host HBAs can get to - this has performance implications.</P><P></P><P>If you only ever zone your qa hosts to ports 0a and 1a, while your esx hosts are zoned to 0b and 1b, you do not need to worry about storage port contention between your qa and esx hosts.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:43:45 GMT ostiguy 2011-04-22T13:43:45Z FAS Fibre Channel HBA Trunking https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/52978#M3779 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>With the virtualization of the Data Center, shared infrastructure, and private cloud computing.</P><P></P><P>I wonder if the FAS6200 series support Fibre Channel HBA Trunking on the controller for higher bandwidth performance.</P><P></P><P>Thank you</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:56:17 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/52978#M3779 ploufg 2025-06-05T06:56:17Z Re: FAS Fibre Channel HBA Trunking https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/52984#M3780 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN>Please refer to </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://community.brocade.com/message/4357" target="_blank">http://community.brocade.com/message/4357</A></P><P></P><P>Basically if you are trying to address bandwidth issue, you can have multiple target ports, using zoning / port sets on storage to do proper load distribution.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:13:12 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/52984#M3780 baijulal 2011-04-21T16:13:12Z Re: FAS Fibre Channel HBA Trunking https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/52991#M3781 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Load distribution is implemented by host multipath software. I am curious how zoning and/or port sets are related to it ☺</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:44:13 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/52991#M3781 aborzenkov 2011-04-22T05:44:13Z Re: FAS Fibre Channel HBA Trunking https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/53001#M3782 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Through fc zoning, you can restrict which storage ports the host HBAs can get to - this has performance implications.</P><P></P><P>If you only ever zone your qa hosts to ports 0a and 1a, while your esx hosts are zoned to 0b and 1b, you do not need to worry about storage port contention between your qa and esx hosts.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:43:45 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS-Fibre-Channel-HBA-Trunking/m-p/53001#M3782 ostiguy 2011-04-22T13:43:45Z