We have a very small deployment going on, 4 servers with 2 x 8Gb FC ports in each and the supplier has specced out a 4 node 7400 with the optional 4-port HBAs in amounting to 16 FC ports in total. The servers will be virtualisation hosts with VMs running all sorts of workloads.
I am thinking this is massive overkill and to just stick with the 8 onboard FC ports but supplier says for the price might as well get the extra HBAs and cable it all up once, which I guess might have some merit but even if this deployment expands it's likely to only be a couple of extra hosts.
Would you recommend getting the 16 total array ports and zoning up each host to 4 array ports, i.e., each host HBA port to a port from each node pair? Is there any immediate benefit to this or is it just a case of might as well?
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