2.5. Fibre Channel Storage Devices

2.5. Fibre Channel Storage Devices

Table 2.3, “Fibre Channel Storage Device Requirements” shows requirements for Fibre Channel devices that are to be connected to a GFS cluster.

Requirement Description
Device Type
FC RAID array or JBOD
Note: Make sure that the devices can operate reliably when heavily accessed simultaneously from multiple initiators.
Note: Make sure that your GFS configuration does not exceed the number of nodes an array or JBOD supports.
Size 8 TB maximum supported per GFS file systen.

Table 2.3. Fibre Channel Storage Device Requirements


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