Look at persistent id section in this guide   https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/sw/4_1/configuration/guides/cli_4_1/clibook/domn.html ... View more

Fred, designation of "both" or "host" or "storage" is per zone so you should have no problems configured it to what you want.  I actually configured VNX ports as host and XIO as storage.  You are either pulling or pushing to XIO and as far as XIO is concerned VNX is just like any other host. ... View more

IVR allows devices in different VSANs to communicate with each other. Yes, zones are VSAN specific. ... View more

Are these are actually two separate storage arrays ?  If you have extra ports on on the second VNX, add them to VSAN 10. I suspect you don't have IVR/Enterprise license ? ... View more

same ... View more

i did not do it in bulk, i performed my "conversions" a couple of systems at a time.  In DCNM i would delete traditional zones from active zoneset, add SmartZone and hit activate. All in one step. ... View more

yep, did that for all my HP C-class blades and UCS blade a couple of years ago. During the day, with absolutely no bleep on the host side. For example let's a take  "traditional" zones between a UCS blade and EMC VNX oracle-hba1-vnx5700-spa0 member vnx5700-spa0 member oracle-hba1 oracle-hba1-vnx5700-spb1 member vnx5700-spb1 member oracle-hba1 oracle-hba1-vnx5700-spa3 member vnx5700-spa3 member oracle-hba1 oracle-hba1-vnx5700-spb4 member vnx5700-spb4 member oracle-hba1 So i have 4 distinct zones in your single initiator single target configuration.  So i go in and create a new smartzone that looks like this: oracle-hba1-vnx5700   member oracle-hba1  init    member vnx5700-spb4 target   member vnx5700-spa0 target   member vnx5700-spb1 target   member vnx5700-spa3 target Now i remove the 4 "traditional" zones above and slide in the SmartZone above and active the zoneset , all in one step.  Done ... View more

yes you can. You can enable SmarZonining on the fly and then start creating new SmartZones that will co-exist with "traditional" zones.  To convert "traditional" zone to SmartZone I would create a brand new SmartZone, add it to active zoneset and at the same time remove "traditional" zone and then active the zoneset.  Did that on the fly without host noticing a thing. ... View more

or enable SmartZoning, sure saves on a lot of zones. ... View more

i would be careful doing that.  Unless you have enabled SmartZoning you might have storage ports login into each other (IE, EMC VNX that have SANCopy enabler installed or VMAX with Open Replicator).  For these specific platforms it's not a good idea for storage ports to login into each other. ... View more

device-alias is the preferred way.  Can you share output from "sh ivr vsan-topology" ... View more

Kevin, run "sh ivr vsan-topology" and figure out if the WWN of switch in question is listed as well as the appropriate VSAN #.   ... View more