On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:58:09AM +0200, Stefan Majer wrote:
Hi,

im curious if there are some numbers out up to which distance its possible
to mirror (raid1) 2 FC-LUNs. We have 2 datacenters with a effective
distance of 11km. The fabrics in one datacenter are connected to the
fabrics in the other datacenter with 5 dark fibre both about 11km in
distance.

as you probably already know with LX (1310nm) GBICS and single-mode fiber you 
can
reach up to a theoretical limit of 50Km, and you can double that using 1550 nm 
lasers (ZX?)

I want to set up servers wich mirrors their LUNs across the SAN-boxen in
both datacenters. On top of this mirrored LUN i put lvm2.

So the question is does anybody have some numbers up to which distance
this method works ?

the method is independent of the distance, if your FC hardware can do
that, then you can.
the only thing you should consider (and that is not directly related to
distance) is the bandwith you have between the two sites (i mean the
number of systems that might be using those 5 fibers)


Regards,
L.

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