A Storage Administrator Is Configuring SAN Switches and Zoning to Connect

question 189

Multiple Choice

A storage administrator is configuring SAN switches and zoning to connect an eight X-Brick XtremIO array. A VMware ESXi server is hosted on a blade chassis with 16 HBA ports. In addition, the SAN is composed of two separate SAN switches. What is the recommended XtremIO best practice for zoning?

• A) Two HBA connections per host connected to a single switch Multiple initiators/multiple targets per zone Maximum of 4 paths for each LUN per zone
• B) Connect a single storage controller to the first switch Connect a second storage controller to the second switch Single initiator/multiple targets per zone Maximum of 6 paths for each LUN per zone
• C) Connect all N1 storage controllers to the first switch Connect N2 storage controllers to the second switch Multipath all host ports to single LUNs per zone
• D) Multiple HBA connections per host Single initiator/single target per zone Maximum of 2 paths to each X-Brick for each initiator Each host connected to each SAN switch

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