Direct conntction to Netapp FAS 8300

[ashrafbinali]

Dear All,

we have 3 x HP DL 380 GEN 10. is it possible to connect  Netapp FAS 8300  to HP DL 380 GEN 10 ( With Out SAN Switch)

[SpindleNinja]

you can direct attached with iSCSI. 

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.dot-cm-sanconf/GUID-193CC377-5C6F-4D3C-B42E-CE71AB6AA77F.html 

[ashrafbinali]

Thank you for quick reply . I am looking for FC connectivity

[SpindleNinja · Accepted solution]

Does not look like it's supported anymore.  

Here's the doc - https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.dot-cm-sanconf/SAN%20configuration.pdf

"You cannot directly attach FC or FC-NVMe SAN hosts to HA pairs without using a switch." - page 13 

"You cannot directly attach FC or FC-NMVE SAN hosts to single nodes without using an FC switch." - page 11 

[paul_stejskal]

Correct. Was possible in 7-mode but the functionality needed in FCP is not supported with CDOT and always has been that way. A switch is required.

However, if you want, as mentioned iSCSI works perfectly fine as it will be a layer 2 network anyway. Chances are, you already have it networked either way.