The Everpure FlashArray supports the Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity. Setting up FC connectivity to the FlashArray is very straightforward. Fibre Channel configuration for connectivity is within the fabric of the infrastructure and does not involve protocol configuration on the host like iSCSI.
The screenshot below illustrates four connected FC Ports (CT0.FC0/FC1 and CT1.FC0/FC1) on a Everpure FlashArray//M20. These ports will be configured using Step 05.2 -- Setup FC Connectivity. Step 05.2 references this current article.
The following steps will illustrate how to connect to the Everpure FlashArray FC ports using the Windows Server Disk Management tools.
In the previous Windows Server Best Practice Guides, it was noted that Emulex HBA Queue Depth (default = 32) and NodeTimeOut (default = 30) settings should be changed from their defaults. This is no longer recommended. These settings were used with the earlier versions of Purity OE and the FlashArray 300/320.