We have a AFF A220 we will be deploying that has 8 x SFP+Optical 10 Gb Shortwave connectors. We wish to connect it to our Cisco 2960-X switches via the 2 x SFP interfaces on each switch. Unfortunately, the model of 2960 we procured seems to only be able to support 1 GB optical:  Cisco Catalyst 2960X-24PSQ-L, 2 SFP (10/100/1000BT)   My questions are: 1) will we be able to connect the SAN to these switches assuming it will negotiate a connection down to 1 GB due to the switch limitations? 2) what client protocols over the FC are available to use for our vSphere cluster given the limited bandwidth on the switch. Assuming SCSI over FC is our only option   thanks in advance! Marcus ... View more

hi.   We recently purchased the SAN with 12 x 960GB SSD for our production vSphere environment.    As we are not familiar with how to assign the number of drives per node (2 nodes on the A220), is it safe to say the recommended and most generic configuration would be 6 drives per node in a 1 TB RAID6 configuration?    regards. ... View more

Hello, we get a lot of these messages: Either the NTP server's resolved or configured IP address is wrong or the IP address is unavailable via the attached network Event Priority: Critical Component Type: Controller Component Location We have 2 EF280 we have configured several settings.. NTP Server FQDN - NTP Server with IP, Domain Controller, etc.   nothing helps.   The other controller / server works fine with this settings.   Any ideas ? ... View more