Re: multi-port ESCON cards in EMC Symmetrix 8830

From: oracle (oracle_at_isomontheweb.com)
Date: 02/23/05

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    Hi Peter,

    We have two 4 port EA's in our 8730 with all eight paths active. That is to
    a mainframe though with all devices mapped to all ports. What is your
    current RDF infrastructure? dark-fibre, managed service etc?

    Have you considered ISLing your RDF traffic using a FA port (configured as
    RA) instead? We've been runing that configuration very successfully for the
    past couple of years.

    Like I mentioned earlier, depending on your link.

    Any more questions just ask.

    Brian.

    "Peter Fok" <pfok04@gsb.columbia.edu> wrote in message
    news:fe6d76cc.0502211012.7b49d3c5@posting.google.com...
    > Hello,
    >
    > We would like to increase the remote replication bandwidth between our
    > Symmetrix 8000 boxes with additional ESCON lines but we are running
    > out of card slots in our Symmetrix 8830.
    >
    > Can someone tell me if there are ESCON cards available with 4 or more
    > ports?
    >
    > Thank you,
    > Peter

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