ISL Port problems on 9513

[axatechsan]

Hi, I have two shiny new MDS9513 directors which i am trying to link with two ISL's. The problem i am having is that the ports on both switches stay in a state of 'initializing' although the port light is green. My HDS USPV disk ports come up fine as do the host ports. Trunking is set to on. Anyone any ideas?

[inch]

G'day,

A couple of questions:

- What sort of line cards are you using?

- What VSAN's have you got configured?

- What zoning policy do you have and have you got any active zonesets on either switch?

- Have you setup switch priorities?

cheers

[axatechsan]

Hi,

I have sorted the problem. ISL's are on 24 port 4GB cards so i had to set the ports to dedicated rather than shared to get the ISL's up as TE's.

[nfreeman44]

Hello,

having the same problem,

48-port FC card

I don't have any VSAN's configured( nothing is attached)

NO Zones

How do I configure switch priorities ?

[inch]

G'day,

I'm not to sure how to do it via the GUI, but from the command line it is:

fcdomain priority [value (1-255)] vsan [vsan number]

Cheers

Andrew

[svobom]

VSANs require that both switches have the VSAN defined on

them in order for them to access each other across the ISL. In

other words, if Cisco switch A has 10 N_Ports in VSAN 1000, and

Cisco switch B has 10 N_Ports in VSAN 1 (default), these N_Ports

will not be able to access each other until the N_Ports in VSAN 1

are moved into VSAN 1000, or vice versa, or some flavor of IVR is

used.

[svobom]

Initializing: The physical layer link is operational and the

protocol initialization is in progress.

You should be more clear with your question is this an EISL or ISL ? what cable type are you using? are thier any patch panels involved? is switch binding enabled?

what have you done so far in your attempt to configure the ISL's ?