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March 23rd

Create 50 SAN Volumes in 1 minute

I was asked to setup a mixed SAN infrastructure with both fiber and iSCSI SAN products. One of the requirement is to create over 50 of the volumes. It will be tedious and time consuming if going through the GUI one click at a time so I decided to give it a try using CLI and some ruby code to help.

50.times { |x|
    puts "volume create Tables#{x+1} 100G pool bigsan"
    puts "volume select Tables#{x+1} access create ipaddress 10.1.1.*"
}

Network Recommendation for iSCSI implementation

  1. Switched Gigabit Ethernet network : Connect arrays and hosts to a switched network and ensure that all network connections between hosts and arrays are Gigabit Ethernet. An array can operate at 10 and 100 Mbits, but performance will be significantly degraded.