Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect - Support Direct Connection to Storage, Zonng & VSAN?

[michaelgitonga]

Hi,

Does the Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect support:

• Direct connection to Storage using native Fibre Channel?
• Zoning?
• VSAN?

[myrddin]

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@Rick1776 wrote:

Does the new version of UCS manager for the UCS mini have the slider bar still?

The older version you would just move from left to right to create the FC port...

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There's no slider bar. I do have 10GB SFPs, and 10G twinax cables, but I really wanted to split the traffic- have FC for storage and 10G ethernet for data, and keep 1G ethernet for management. 

[myrddin]

[Walter Dey]

This port is a native FC port (not FCoE).

It's F port, therefore the fabric interconnect is in FC switch mode ?

Port is enabled. 

What is the peer ? Netapp FC storage controller ?

This must be a trivial physical problem; SFP's, cable ?

[myrddin]

Hi Walter,

Yes, the peer is a NetApp Storage controller- FAS2650 using 16GB SFP.

[Walter Dey]

Can you please check events and error log on the UCS !

Is the SFP for 8G FC a Cisco branded ?

I would login with CLI, and do all possible "show interface fc ..." commands 

[myrddin]

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@Walter Dey wrote:

Can you please check events and error log on the UCS !

Is the SFP for 8G FC a Cisco branded ?

I would login with CLI, and do all possible "show interface fc ..." commands 

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The SFP is Cisco branded.

The show interface fc under fc-storage scope just shows link down

[Walter Dey]

I mean in the context of nx-os: show interface fc.....

[myrddin]

I guess I'll have to check in the nx-os context. I suppose that's the syntax...

[myrddin]

[Walter Dey]

Hi

Looks very strange ! all Counters are 0 !

What about the output of

show interface ... Transceiver 

show vsan 2001 

[myrddin]

I've removed the vsan 2001

I'm just not getting why the FC-FC communication is happening. I flushed out all configurations relating to the SAN, but nothing. I've checked the FC port modes on storage, all set to target mode.

I'm at a loss here.

[Walter Dey]

Is your VSAN set for "zoning enabled" ?

see eg. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-infrastructure-ucs-manager-software/116082-config-ucs-das-00.html#anc11

[myrddin]

Yes.