Working with multiple operating systems on a single SAN

3. Can the data be corrupted with multiple OSs when WWN zoning is implemented?

If you enforce array-based security and assign the HBA WWN in the server to its own storage domain on the physical port, the only storage it will ever see is the storage it has been assigned. By default, once security is turned on there is no access. You need to expressly turn on access for each server in your environment. Therefore, switch zoning just becomes another level of security and is not really even needed. It's always nice though to zone out Windows from Unix in case someone makes a mistake somewhere.

Chris

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