I'm setting up a UCS environment with a pair of MDS 9148's for the first time. The fabric interconnects are 6120XP's with the 6 port 8Gb fc expansion modules. Here is what I've done: I enabled npiv on both 9148's, I've assigned the FC ports on the fabric interconnects to the appropriate VSAN, I've assigned the ports on the 9148's to the appropriate VSAN, I've created a service profile template with vnic's and vhba's (the vhba's also being assigned to the appropriate vsan, and then I created two service profiles from the templates.
I see that the two machines I created have logged into the fabric as I can see the wwn's in fabric manager. I then created the alias and zones and saved the configuration. I went to our storage managment software and allocated a LUN to each server. Each server will be an ESXi server that is booting from SAN. So I mount the ESXi iso to the machines and boot to the iso. The machines boot to the iso and I can install ESXi onto the LUN (the machines see the boot LUN). There is no local disk in these machines. ESXi successfully installs and the machines reboot and I start configuring ESXi. I go to lunch and come back and the ESXi servers have lost connectivity to the SAN. I validate that ports on the 9148's are in the appropriate vsan, and the fabric interconnect ports are in the appropriate vsan, and the vhba template is using the appropriate vsan.
In Fabric Manager the connections from UCS to the individual servers I setup have a red X through them and when I click on the red X it takes me the connection of the vhba and says unavailableNPVUpstreamPort and the Port VSAN says 1, which is not the appropriate VSAN. How did this get like this and how to I address it? All the ports on the 9148's and fabric interconnects are in the appropriate vsan.
