[UniMacTech] Fiber Channel, X Serve and Storage Tech (SUN) 2530 San?

[Kris Kopicki]

I don't have any personal experience with it, but I have read about a  
few people that have tested it without any issues. If its an optical  
connection you need, you'll need to get yourself an optical  
transceiver such as this:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TK720LL/A?mco=MTIxODk3Mw

Cheers,

Kris

On 22/07/2008, at 11:18 AM, Mark Secker wrote:

> We have a Storage Tech (Sun) 2530 SAN that our Unix system admin has  
> connected via one set of fiber channels using  connector adaptors  
> (HBIC) at each end and connected  using a purely fiber optic cable  
> between them.
> I'm asking him to allow me to plug my xServe directly in to the SAN  
> so that we can access the drive  partition we've set up for our  
> mac's home drives. However he's seen the Fiber Channel cables that  
> came with the xServe that are optical + electrical connectors and is  
> not wanting to pug them in to his SAN with out knowing that they  
> won't cause issues with his box.
>
> I'm not up to speed with Fiber Channel and not seeing much when  
> googling for info about compatibility of Sun/Storage Tech SANs and  
> xServe Fiber Channel.
>
> is anyone else using these to pieces of kit using the Apple supplied  
> Fiber Channel connector? or is an adaptor required?
>
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