FC-SFP-VALIDATION FAILED

[Basavaraj Ningappa]

Hello All,

facing a sfp port validation failed issue on the Cisco ucs FI 6324 fabric interconnect. we tried to inserting sfp (DS-SFP-FC8G-SW) into the port number 3 or 4 on the fabric interconnect and we immediately see " ether port 1/3 on fabric interconnect A oper state: failed, reason SFP validation failed"

request you to let me know if anyone has solution for this

Thanks

Basavaraj

[Walter Dey]

Did you first configure the univeral port as native fibre channel ? you inserted a FC SFP in a Ethernet port !

[Basavaraj Ningappa]

Hello Walter,

I have inserted the sfp in the port number 3 of the FI and configured uplink fcoe port like that and after in the status i see this port validation failed.

do i have to configured first uplink fcoe port and then insert the sfp ?

thanks

[Kirk J · Accepted solution]

Like Walter mentioned, you probably are inserting a FC style SFP into an Ethernet configured port.

You mentioned FCOE uplink, which is still Ethernet.  You will need to configure this as an FC uplink port to be able to use a native FC SFP like SFP-FC8G-SW.

Thanks,

Kirk...