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From my understanding HP StorageWorks P4300 G2 is intended to be multiplexed over 1Gb ethernet when used as a SAN, where half of them should be in a remote location.

If all 4 are next to each other, would it then be possible to Fibre Channel cascade them and have a RAID 6 across the nodes?

If, which Fibre Channel adapters should I get for them?

Jasmine Lognnes
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if all 4 are next to each other, would it then be possible to Fibre Channel cascade them and have a RAID 6 across the nodes?

No, they're not disk shelves, they're full servers with their own CPUs, memory, DAS disks - it's the software that clusters them into pairs for resilience - so no you can't just FC-connect them all together. Oh and 'multiplex' isn't the right term, it's 'remote replication' or similar.

Chopper3
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  • Ok, so the magic happens in the HP software. Are the nodes so standard that Linux could be installed on them? – Jasmine Lognnes Oct 30 '14 at 09:30
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    Yes absolutely - obviously that'll wipe and break their current data and functionality but you could put something like glusterfs on them and perhaps achieve something close to what you want. – Chopper3 Oct 30 '14 at 09:40