UCS 5108 + Hitachi HUS FC connection

diego.macedo · ‎07-31-2012

Hi, we are configuring a UCS5108 with 6200 Fabric interconnect. We have 2 ports (31 and 32) connected to a Hitachi HUS storage via FC interfaces.

The problem is that the state of the ports appears as "admin down" and "Config State: Inconsistent".

Can you help us with the configuration of the FC ports in order to be able to connect with the storage?.

King Regards

Diego

padramas · ‎07-31-2012

Hello Diego,

1) Have you cofnigured these ports as FC storage ports ?

2) Do you have upstream FC switch to provide zoning features ?

3) Please share the output of " show int fc x/y " command from NX OS CLI

Padma

diego.macedo · ‎07-31-2012

Hi Padma,

Thanks for the quickly response.

1) Yes, we have the ports configured as FC storage ports according to:

2) No, we don't have an upstream FC switch. We have the 6200 conected to an ethernet switch via ports 1 and 2 configured as ethernet uplink port.

3) UCS-DEMO-A(nxos)# show interface fc1/32

fc1/32 is down (Administratively down)

Hardware is Fibre Channel, SFP is short wave laser w/o OFC (SN)

Port WWN is 20:20:54:7f:ee:71:47:00

Admin port mode is F, trunk mode is off

snmp link state traps are enabled

Port vsan is 2

Receive data field Size is 2112

Beacon is turned off

1 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0 frames/sec

1 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0 frames/sec

0 frames input, 0 bytes

0 discards, 0 errors

0 CRC, 0 unknown class

0 too long, 0 too short

0 frames output, 0 bytes

0 discards, 0 errors

0 input OLS, 0 LRR, 0 NOS, 0 loop inits

0 output OLS, 0 LRR, 0 NOS, 0 loop inits

last clearing of "show interface" counters never

Thanks a lot!

padramas · ‎08-02-2012

Hello Diego,

UCS needs upstream FC switch for zoning functionality.

The doc provides list of tested HDS arrays with UCS.

Did you try using different cables for FC port ?

Padma