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EF & E-Series, SANtricity, and Related Plug-ins

can E5600 provide redundancy/ failover functions?

heightsnj
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I feel E series doesn't provide such functions, it will be dependending on iSCSI hosts multipathing. But, I would like to confirm experts here.

There are two controllers, and 2 ports on each one. 

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SpindleNinja
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You need host side multipathing for iSCSI and FC failover in general.  Neither eSeries or FAS has LIFs (FC or iSCSI) that failover to the other controller during failover.  

 

elementx
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Everything depends on something.  Using MPIO on the host is common to most arrays.

 

E-Series provides full redundancy (controller, controller port, disk)

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