05-24-2010 08:31 PM
Our AIX team wants to enable NPIV on both our Cisco MDS9513 directors to take advantage of there new VIOS servers. I couldn't find any documents relating to the minimum firware requirements on the switches that support NPIV. Does anyone know if there is a firmware minimum to support NPIV?
To enable NPIV issue these commands:
config t
npiv enable
Final question there are a lot of post on NPV and NPIV, just so I'm clear you don't need NPV enabled to use NPIV?
Thanks for any assistance.
05-25-2010 05:10 AM
Hello,
MDS 9513 supports NPIV.
NPV is NOT required to enable NPIV feature.
I hope this has helped you.
Regards,
Carlos
05-25-2010 08:22 AM
My aplogizes for high jacking this thread, but I have similiar question...
We are currently using 2 MDS 9124's for our core SAN switches (A and B path). We would like to utilize NPIV on our ESX hosts/VM's. From the reading I have done we should just be able to enable NPIV via Device Manager per each switch. I would just like to confirm that this will not have any impact on the switch, ie needing a reboot etc...
Thanks in advance,
-Jason
05-27-2010 09:52 PM
no impact at all ..
06-03-2010 01:30 PM
I'm using MDS 9513 with OS Release 4.1(1b). I do not see the command to enable NPIV with this version. Is NPIV already enabled?
Thanks,
Rick
06-05-2010 06:19 AM
run "show feature" to see if NPIV is enabled. If it's not you can run "feature npiv" to enable it.
06-07-2010 06:23 AM
The command "show feature" is not valid on this release. I think that I will open a case with support and will post the solution once it is resolved.
06-10-2010 06:36 AM
I looked in the running config to see if npiv was enabled which it wasn't.
show running config | inc npiv
To enable npiv run "feature npiv" in config mode.
To disable npiv run "no feature npiv" in config mode.
06-10-2010 06:14 PM
You can enable npiv with no worries, it won't effect production. It just allows the initiators to request multiple FCID's.
06-16-2010 03:08 PM
I enabled npiv, and no impact to anything. Actually much smoother than I expected. Our AIX team is using the pvid feature and they are loving it.
02-24-2012 01:49 AM
Hi,
What version of SAN-OS are you using on the 9513?
Thanks
Colin
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