Re: Some questions about naming (newbie)

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

Steven-

The smaller targets (such as the individual Seagate drives) do support
LUN WWN.  However, the large storage arrays do not support LUN WWN
as a way to correlate different paths to the same LU.

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Mark

Stephen Bailey wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> >    However, most FC devices do not support the LUN WWN, and use
> >    serial numbers, device IDs, and other mechanisms to correlate
> >    them.
> 
> ?
> 
> Every FC target I recall checking this on reported what looked like a
> WWN.  Some (many?) ||SCSI targets seemed to do this too.  I know other
> formats are supported, like vendor ID+serial number, but I can't
> recall seeing a target which reported ONLY this and not a WWN as well.
> Am I all wet?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Steph

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Mark A. Bakke
Cisco Systems
mbakke@cisco.com
763.398.1054