Hi

A quick question on fibre zoning devices

What is the best approach to initiator and target

i know only a single initiator in a zone and not to mix tape and disk in zones and to dedicate hba port to either disk or tape not both i.e. in multiple zones

my questions are rather to clear up a remark by a EMC engineer in regards to zoning disks

his advice was to create separate zones for access to different SAN disk i.e. two VNX5400s - a server needs to access both - dont place the targets (controller ports) in same zone so create separate zone for each with same initiator (HBA) and then single initiator in each

is this correct?

Secondly to zone a tape library with multiple drives - is there any problem grouping the targets into single zone? i.e. any problems or performance hits with this approach - so initiator (hba in server) and four targets for four drives in same zone - or should it be a zone for each drive?