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Dell EMC Exam E20-526 Topic 10 Question 45 Discussion

Actual exam question for Dell EMC's E20-526 exam
Question #: 45
Topic #: 10
[All E20-526 Questions]

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?

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In an environment where a host with two HBAs (VMware Best Practice) is connected to two fabrics and storage array with two Storage Controllers (EMC VNX, for example) the host will have four paths to a LUN: 2 Controllers x 2 HBAs = 4 paths

If you go to the extreme and configure your XtremIO with eight X-Brick, you have 16 controllers. Again, two HBAs per host and the max number of LUNs you can attach to an ESXi host will be 32... I understand, different OS'es may have different limits than VMware and this logic will not be applicable.

If you have hit the limit of 1024 paths per host (1024 / 4 controllers / 2 HBAs = 128 LUNs) and need to provision more LUNs, the best way will be to re-zone the host to limit the number of X-Bricks / Controllers the host HBA can connect to.

The following diagram displays the logical connection topology for 4 paths.


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