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9 Best Practices for Sharing an iSCSI SAN Infrastructure with Dell PS Series and SC Series Storage using VMware vSphere
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3 PS Series and SC Series iSCSI SAN coexistence
PS Series and SC Series arrays can coexist in a shared iSCSI SAN, either with shared hosts or dedicated
hosts. Shared hosts not only share the iSCSI SAN infrastructure, but also connect to storage targets on both
the PS Series and SC Series arrays. Shared-host coexistence (see Figure 1) shares the iSCSI SAN
infrastructure and has all hosts connected to both array platforms. When hosts are dedicated (see Figure 2),
each host in the iSCSI infrastructure connects to targets from either the PS Series array or SC Series array,
but not both. Dedicated host coexistence utilizes a shared iSCSI SAN infrastructure only.
3.1 Topology of a shared iSCSI SAN infrastructure with shared hosts
Shared iSCSI SAN with shared hosts reference topology