Well . . . for AIX I'll throw this out.  I have played around (ie: it
technically works) with FCNET devices under the FCS hba device.  In other
words, I setup a IP network over our SAN.  I did this one time when we had
some network issues and I wanted to make sure our server-to-server
communications wasn't affected.  So I setup IP on our Brocade switches (not
the management lan port, but IP in the san) and FCNET AIX devices, and
changed server_to_server communcations to use the SAN based IP network.
Now, I've never talked with anyone else who has done this other than me.  I
also don't know if Linux of Win support IP directly on a SAN, althought I
think I remember reading that  HPUX did support this.

Rick








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Hi all,
GPFS does not currently support 32-bit Windows nodes. Is there any
disk-based lan-free solutioin for AIX/Linux/windows nodes? Or any news from
the next version of GPFS to support more open platforms?

"GPFS Multiplatform V3.2.1-5 and later, is supported on nodes running
Windows Server 2003 R2 on 64-bit architectures (AMD x64 / EM64T) in an
existing GPFS V3.2.1 cluster of AIX and/or
Linux at V3.2.1-5 or later."
Reference: GPFS Questions and Answers

Regards,
Mehdi Salehi



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