Re: zoning mds9216i

alphaguru · ‎03-09-2005

Hello,

My config is as follows eva3000-mds9216i-fcip-3750-1gbit link-3750-fcip-mds9216i-eva3000.

I want to make 2 virtual fabric's making zone's with each 2 legs of the eva300 on both sides in a zone together with a server.

I made a zone test with the host fcid, 2 fcid's of the eva local and the 2 fcid's of the eva remote,

created a zoneset with this zone, distibute and activate the zoneset, and the result is that the server can see the eva on the same switch but not the eva on the remote switch. deactivating the zoneset and the server sees everything.

What have I forgot to configure to get this zoning working?

no vsan configured other than the default vsan 1

-who can shed a light on this weird problem?

-jan

tblancha · ‎03-10-2005

When you activate the zoneset, and then do show zoneset active, is there 5 pwwn/FCID's in the zone? Do they have a * next to the entries indicating those devices have registered with the nameserver?

Can you post the show zoneset active and show flogi data from both switches?

alphaguru · ‎03-10-2005

hello,

I don't have the active zoneset data, i'm not on site. Activating the zoneset disrupted an exchange servers datareplication group. I'll post 2 reply's one for each switch

-jan

INTERFACE VSAN FCID PORT NAME NODE NAME

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

fc1/1 1 0xc90100 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:49 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:40

fc1/3 1 0xc90000 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:4c 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:40

fc1/5 1 0xc90200 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:4d 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:40

fc1/6 1 0xc90900 10:00:00:e0:02:02:96:33 10:00:00:e0:02:02:96:20

fc1/7 1 0xc90300 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:48 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:40

fc1/8 1 0xc90400 10:00:00:00:c9:41:75:f9 20:00:00:00:c9:41:75:f9

fc1/9 1 0xc90a00 21:00:00:e0:8b:18:fd:a0 20:00:00:e0:8b:18:fd:a0

fc1/11 1 0xc90800 21:00:00:e0:8b:1a:cc:55 20:00:00:e0:8b:1a:cc:55

fc1/12 1 0xc90700 21:00:00:e0:8b:1a:cd:55 20:00:00:e0:8b:1a:cd:55

fc1/13 1 0xc90600 21:00:00:e0:8b:1a:c0:5c 20:00:00:e0:8b:1a:c0:5c

Total number of flogi = 10.

zoneset name zoneconfig1 vsan 1

zone name map01z vsan 1

fcid 0x090000

fcid 0x090100

fcid 0x010300

fcid 0x010400

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010700

fcid 0x090a00

zone name mfs01z vsan 1

fcid 0x090100

fcid 0x090000

fcid 0x010300

fcid 0x010400

fcid 0x090800

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010700

zone name mfs02z vsan 1

fcid 0x090200

fcid 0x090300

fcid 0x010200

fcid 0x010700

fcid 0x090700

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010500

zone name mml01z vsan 1

fcid 0x090200

fcid 0x090300

fcid 0x010200

fcid 0x010500

fcid 0x090600

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010700

zone name mfs03z vsan 1

fcid 0x090100

fcid 0x090000

fcid 0x010300

fcid 0x010400

fcid 0x010100

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010700

zone name sma201 vsan 1

fcid 0x090100

fcid 0x090000

fcid 0x010300

fcid 0x010400

fcid 0x090400

zone name sma101 vsan 1

fcid 0x090200

fcid 0x090300

fcid 0x010200

fcid 0x010500

fcid 0x010000

******************************************************************

-------------------- show zone status ------------------

VSAN: 1 default-zone: permit distribute: full Interop: 100

mode: basic merge-control: allow session: none

Hard zoning is enabled

Full Zoning Database :

Zonesets:1 Zones:7 Aliases: 0

Active Zoning Database :

Database Not Available

Status: Deactivation completed at 15:47:38 Mar 09 2005

alphaguru · ‎03-10-2005

and the other switch

-------------------- show flogi database ------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

INTERFACE VSAN FCID PORT NAME NODE NAME

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

fc1/1 1 0x010300 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:3d 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:30

fc1/3 1 0x010400 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:38 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:30

fc1/5 1 0x010200 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:39 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:30

fc1/6 1 0x010700 10:00:00:e0:02:02:b9:6a 10:00:00:e0:02:02:b9:63

fc1/7 1 0x010500 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:3c 50:00:1f:e1:50:04:2c:30

fc1/8 1 0x010000 10:00:00:00:c9:41:75:f1 20:00:00:00:c9:41:75:f1

fc1/11 1 0x010100 21:00:00:e0:8b:19:1c:93 20:00:00:e0:8b:19:1c:93

Total number of flogi = 7.

-------------------- show zoneset ------------------

zoneset name zoneconfig1 vsan 1

zone name map01z vsan 1

fcid 0x090000

fcid 0x090100

fcid 0x010300

fcid 0x010400

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010700

fcid 0x090a00

zone name mfs01z vsan 1

fcid 0x090100

fcid 0x090000

fcid 0x010300

fcid 0x010400

fcid 0x090800

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010700

zone name mfs02z vsan 1

fcid 0x090200

fcid 0x090300

fcid 0x010200

fcid 0x010700

fcid 0x090700

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010500

zone name mml01z vsan 1

fcid 0x090200

fcid 0x090300

fcid 0x010200

fcid 0x010500

fcid 0x090600

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010700

zone name mfs03z vsan 1

fcid 0x090100

fcid 0x090000

fcid 0x010300

fcid 0x010400

fcid 0x010100

fcid 0x090900

fcid 0x010700

zone name sma201 vsan 1

fcid 0x090100

fcid 0x090000

fcid 0x010300

fcid 0x010400

fcid 0x090400

zone name sma101 vsan 1

fcid 0x090200

fcid 0x090300

fcid 0x010200

fcid 0x010500

fcid 0x010000

-------------------- show zone status ------------------

VSAN: 1 default-zone: permit distribute: full Interop: 100

mode: basic merge-control: allow session: none

Hard zoning is enabled

Full Zoning Database :

Zonesets:2 Zones:8 Aliases: 0

Active Zoning Database :

Database Not Available

Status: Deactivation completed at 15:47:14 Mar 09 2005

tblancha · ‎03-10-2005

I'm not sure which ports are the initiator and which are for the storage you want to get to. But one thing that is probably affecting you here is that you are running default permit. This means everything can see everything else. Once a device is put into a zone and that zone is in an active zoneset, it is removed from the default zone permit. So, verify in the zoneset that you activated that the HBA is properly zoned with the 4 ports of the EVA's that you want it to see.

mrfrase · ‎03-10-2005

Also to tblancha's point the the active devices will be disruptive when your making this zoneset active because you are are most likly moving them from default to a zoneset. Other item worth mentioning is that you are using FCID zoning, are you using persistant FCID's in the configuration, these can change if not.

alphaguru · ‎03-10-2005

your observation is correct, i know that, I think the setting is persistant.

I've also tried the following zone setup using the ports and the domain, but as you can gues it doesn't work either.

zone name test vsan 1

member interface fc1/1 domain-id 1

member interface fc1/1 domain-id 201

member interface fc1/3 domain-id 1

member interface fc1/3 domain-id 201

member interface fc1/8 domain-id 1

member interface fc1/8 domain-id 201

member interface fc1/5 domain-id 1

member interface fc1/5 domain-id 201

member interface fc1/7 domain-id 1

member interface fc1/7 domain-id 201

-jan

alphaguru · ‎03-10-2005

one other thing i've tried is making one great dpvm with all ports in it based on the pwwn's.

auto-learning set to on and the thing i've noticed is that showing the dpvm active database would show the local pwwn's with an asterix but the remote ports not, perhaps is that an indication what's wrong?

-jan

mrfrase · ‎03-11-2005

FYI, the Asterisk tells you the device that is zoned is no longer in the directory server on the switch (not FLOGI'ed) into fabric)

alphaguru · ‎03-11-2005

If there is no zoning in a two switch fabric should I see all the ports in the fabric with a sho flogi command?

On the other hand what could be the cause when I enable zoning and I don't see an asterix behind the remote ports. How can I troubleshoot that?

-jan

alphaguru · ‎03-14-2005

Here;s an update,

today I went to the customer, deleted all the zone info and started over with fcaliases, zones and a new zoneset, activated and distributed the zoneset and still no succes. Then I wanted to change the domain-id of the switch to reflect the switch name and i rebooted the switch and from that point the zoning was ok. I yjink the reboot did the trick

thanks guys for helping me out with this problem

jan

alphaguru · ‎03-10-2005

The ports 1,3,5 and 7 on each switch are the 4 eva ports, ports 6 are the management appliances ports 8 are the network storage routers and the rest are servers.

so i setup a zone using ports 1 and 3 both switches and port 6 as one sma zone.

-jan

tblancha · ‎03-11-2005

Looking at what you posted and going by your description, when you activate this zoneset, it should allow connectivity to the disks. I still would like to see a show zoneset active when the ZS is activated. The best way is to run fcanalyzer filtering on the HBA in question and then activate the ZS and watch the RSCN's.

alphaguru · ‎03-11-2005

Monday I'll return to the customer to get some answers on your questions.

thanks,

jan