greetings!!
We have had to amend our storage network due to a failed brocade.
Previously, we had 2 x Nexus 5672UP (with NPV enabled) 2 x fcports connecting to the brocades in NP mode.
The plan was/is to attach unity storage direct to our Nexus 5672UP 16G-FC eliminating the brocades totally.
I have amended the fc2/x ports to be switchport mode F and all the required ports (VFC interface bind to eth for servers) are in the correct VSAN, however I am getting a “npmExtLinkDown” from the show interface brief
fc2/11 2001 F off npmExtLinkDown swl
fc2/12 2001 F off npmExtLinkDown swl
There is no zoning in place and is not available on our nexus switch? Which is another issue…
Any help from the storage guru’s on this?
Cheers
Tommo
Thanks for the response Balaji,
I should have mentioned that due to the failed brocade and it being a production environment we are in a non-resilient state with one of the NX switches still connected to the Brocade and then to the storage (live)
The plan is to remove the brocades if we can get the storage directly attached to the nexus…
Whilst researching this issue on another post it was suggested that the nexus’s need to have the feature “NPV” removed, config wrote, and then a reload,
As requested here is the config that I think you are after
feature fcoe
fabric-mode 40G
interface vfc1
bind interface Ethernet1/1
no shutdown
interface vfc2
bind interface Ethernet1/2
no shutdown
interface vfc3
bind interface Ethernet1/3
no shutdown
interface vfc4
bind interface Ethernet1/4
no shutdown
interface vfc5
bind interface Ethernet1/5
no shutdown
interface vfc6
bind interface Ethernet1/6
no shutdown
interface vfc7
bind interface Ethernet1/7
no shutdown
interface vfc8
bind interface Ethernet1/8
no shutdown
interface vfc9
bind interface Ethernet1/9
no shutdown
interface vfc10
bind interface Ethernet1/10
no shutdown
interface vfc11
bind interface Ethernet1/11
no shutdown
interface vfc12
bind interface Ethernet1/12
no shutdown
interface vfc13
bind interface Ethernet1/13
no shutdown
interface vfc14
bind interface Ethernet1/14
no shutdown
interface vfc15
bind interface Ethernet1/15
no shutdown
interface vfc16
bind interface Ethernet1/16
no shutdown
interface vfc17
bind interface Ethernet1/17
no shutdown
interface vfc18
bind interface Ethernet1/18
no shutdown
interface vfc19
bind interface Ethernet1/19
no shutdown
interface vfc20
bind interface Ethernet1/20
no shutdown
interface vfc21
bind interface Ethernet1/21
no shutdown
interface vfc22
bind interface Ethernet1/22
no shutdown
interface vfc23
bind interface Ethernet1/23
no shutdown
interface vfc24
bind interface Ethernet1/24
no shutdown
interface vfc341
bind interface Ethernet3/4/1
no shutdown
interface vfc342
bind interface Ethernet3/4/2
no shutdown
interface vfc343
bind interface Ethernet3/4/3
no shutdown
interface vfc344
bind interface Ethernet3/4/4
no shutdown
vsan database
vsan 2001 interface vfc1
vsan 2001 interface vfc2
vsan 2001 interface vfc3
vsan 2001 interface vfc4
vsan 2001 interface vfc5
vsan 2001 interface vfc6
vsan 2001 interface vfc7
vsan 2001 interface vfc8
vsan 2001 interface vfc9
vsan 2001 interface vfc10
vsan 2001 interface vfc11
vsan 2001 interface vfc12
vsan 2001 interface vfc13
vsan 2001 interface vfc14
vsan 2001 interface vfc15
vsan 2001 interface vfc16
vsan 2001 interface vfc17
vsan 2001 interface vfc18
vsan 2001 interface vfc19
vsan 2001 interface vfc20
vsan 2001 interface vfc21
vsan 2001 interface vfc22
vsan 2001 interface vfc23
vsan 2001 interface vfc24
vsan 2001 interface vfc341
vsan 2001 interface vfc342
vsan 2001 interface vfc343
vsan 2001 interface vfc344
vsan 2001 interface fc2/11
vsan 2001 interface fc2/12
vsan 2001 interface fc2/13
vsan 2001 interface fc2/14
vsan 2001 interface fc2/15
vsan 2001 interface fc2/16
vsan 2001 interface fc2/17
vsan 2001 interface fc2/18
vsan 2001 interface fc2/19
vsan 2001 interface fc2/20
vsan 2001 interface fc2/21
vsan 2001 interface fc2/22
vsan 2001 interface fc2/23
vsan 2001 interface fc2/24
feature npv
feature npiv
fcoe vsan 2001
interface fc2/11
switchport speed 4000
switchport mode F
switchport description UnityA-0
interface fc2/12
switchport speed 4000
switchport mode F
switchport description UnityA-1
sh license usage
Feature Ins Lic Status Expiry Date Comments
Count
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FCOE_NPV_PKG No - Unused -
FM_SERVER_PKG No - Unused -
ENTERPRISE_PKG Yes - Unused never -
FC_FEATURES_PKG Yes - In use never -
VMFEX_FEATURE_PKG No - Unused -
ENHANCED_LAYER2_PKG No - Unused -
NETWORK_SERVICES_PKG No - Unused -
LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG Yes - In use never -
LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG No - Unused -
sh run | in feature
feature fcoe
no feature telnet
feature interface-vlan
feature hsrp
feature lacp
feature dhcp
feature lldp
feature npv
feature npiv
