1) replication is only across ethernet, use either a 1Gb network card or a 10GBe card. We are using a 1GB ethernet card and have no problems with replication and we have 24 vitrtual servers running on 4 ESXi hosts connected to open-e.
2) Failover is a manual process, if the Active server fails, you have to change the secondary servers FC volumes to source and added them to the fibre channel Groups, added them in the same order as on the failed server i.e LUN id. On the ESX server you have to rescan the Fibre Channel Cards and you may have to rename/signature the volumes not sure about if the Volumes where on a native windows/linux server.
It would be nice to have
1) Replication via FC
2) Auto Failover
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