Can I have different ESX hosts accessing the same LUN over different protocols?

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Published on 2009-06-26T17:05:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 20:54 UTC
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I currently have a cluster of two ESX 3.5U2 servers connected directly via FiberChannel to a NetApp 3020 cluster. These hosts mount four VMFS LUNs for virtual machine storage. Currently these LUNs are only made available via our FiberChannel initator in the Netapp configuration

If I were to add an ESXi host to the cluster for internal IT use can I:

Make the same VMFS LUNs available via the iSCSI initiator on the Netapp
Connect this ESXi host to those LUNs via iSCSI
Do all of this while the existing two ESX hosts are connected to those LUNs via FiberChannel

Does anyone have experience with this type of mixed protocol environment, specifically with Netapp?

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