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Re: Storage array to DWDM direct attach Q...

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Date 2013-06-09 18:29 -0700
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Subject Re: Storage array to DWDM direct attach Q...
From L1f3H4ck3r <mivego7@gmail.com>

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El jueves, 3 de julio de 2003 20:02:00 UTC-4, Milton Vega  escribió:
> Hi:
> 
> Im trying to connect two Hitachi HDS 9960's to each other
> over DWDM (for TrueCopy). Im not having much success.
> Perhaps someone can spot something, so here is the config:
> 
> 
>    Im going straight from the Hitachi 9960 FC ports
>    (GSE ports) to the Adva DWDM ports (Adva model FSP-3000).
>    By "going straight", I mean there is a 62.5um home-run
>    cable between the two units (there is no intermediate
>    FC-SW switch in between).
> 
>    On the Hitachi 9960 boxes, I set the protocol to be
>    FibreChannel Point-to-Point/No-Fabric. I have also
>    tried FC-AL/No-Fabric. In both cases I made sure the
>    address on each end is different (EF(0) on one end,
>    and E8(1) on the other). So these are the protocols
>    that are attempting to right-the-light.
> 
>    Am I missing something.
> 
>    BWT... an FC-SW switch will come later so that the DWDM
>    links can host generic SAN traffic (not just TrueCopy
>    traffic). But I dont have it now.
> 
> Any ideas as to why the signals are not syncing up
> (as comfirmed by both the Adva box and the Hitachi box).
> The light levels look good BTW.
> 
> TIA,
> Milton

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