The subnet and collision domain are for Ethernet network, they have nothing to do with a FC switch.

You can have servers don't have ethernet cards at all to use the CX3-20.

After saying that. NaviSphere manager do try to contact host agent of its registered hosts, so a gateway address in the SP ip address settings is required if hosts are in different subnet.

This had nothing to do with access, just to avoid the "host agent not responding " error in the host tag.

Gordon

You can manualy register hosts when you're not able to reach the host's agent, so even ethernet connectivity from host to Clariion is not really needed !

I have a total of 4 servers connected to a McData FC switch. Two of the servers are in one vlan and tweo are in another, lets just use vlan 2 and 3 for explanation. Servers in vlan 2 work fine. The servers that are in vlan 3 I can not see from the CX when I try to "Connect host" and enter the IP's of the servers. When I configured them on the McData switch I added them to the same zone set as the servers in vlan 2. Not sure what I am doing wrong or not doing.

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kpunix

OK I figured out my own problem. The SPA's were not in the zone for the new servers. Once added I can now register teh HBA's in the server with the cx.

Why use 2 separate VSAN's when you only have 1 Clariion ? IMHO you should zone each HBA to each SP and even try to load balance a bit among the SP ports, so you don't put a huge load on 1 port and nothing on another.